UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44898 (CVE-2026-44898)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-05-26 21:16 – Updated: 2026-05-26 21:16 – Source website
VLAI
Details
Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.2.1, render_toc_ul() builds a
- table-of-contents tree from a list of (level, id, text) tuples. Both the id value (used as href="#") and the text value (used as the visible link label) are inserted into tags via a plain Python format string — with no HTML escaping applied to either value. When heading IDs are derived from user-supplied heading text (the standard use-case for readable slug anchors), an attacker can craft a heading whose text breaks out of the href="#..." attribute context, injecting arbitrary HTML tags including blocks directly into the rendered TOC. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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"details": "Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.2.1, render_toc_ul() builds a \u003cul\u003e table-of-contents tree from a list of (level, id, text) tuples. Both the id value (used as href=\"#\u003cid\u003e\") and the text value (used as the visible link label) are inserted into \u003ca\u003e tags via a plain Python format string \u2014 with no HTML escaping applied to either value. When heading IDs are derived from user-supplied heading text (the standard use-case for readable slug anchors), an attacker can craft a heading whose text breaks out of the href=\"#...\" attribute context, injecting arbitrary HTML tags including \u003cscript\u003e blocks directly into the rendered TOC. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44898",
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