Cross-site Scripting (XSS)Weakness · CWE-79

CVE-2026-57531

MEDIUM · 5.4 CVSS v3.1 Developing Published 2026-07-24
Patch available
A vendor patch is available. No clean upgrade release — apply the published patch.
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58/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable Patch available 4 weeks old

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Milkdown before 7.21.3 contains a DOM cross-site scripting vulnerability in the @milkdown/plugin-emoji package that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the host application's origin by causing a victim to paste attacker-controlled content. The parseDOM.getAttrs handler stores raw innerHTML of pasted span elements with data-type="emoji" without sanitization, and the toMarkdown runner subsequently assigns this unsanitized value directly to a live DOM element's innerHTML, bypassing the DOMPurify sanitization used in the toDOM path, causing payload execution on every markdown serialization cycle.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · low confidence
Developing — this CVE was published recently and its authoritative NVD entry is still being established, so we're holding a technical summary until the source data settles rather than publish something unreliable. Re-checking after 2026-08-07.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Patch available Apply the vendor patch
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Recommended fix Moderate confidence

@milkdown/plugin-emoji version 7.21.3 or later

  1. 1. Identify the project dependency on @milkdown/plugin-emoji in your package.json file
  2. 2. Update the @milkdown/plugin-emoji package to version 7.21.3 or later by running: npm install @milkdown/plugin-emoji@^7.21.3
  3. 3. Run npm update to ensure all dependencies are synchronized
  4. 4. Rebuild and test the application to verify the emoji plugin functions correctly after the upgrade
  5. 5. Verify the fix by testing that pasted emoji content is properly sanitized and no XSS payloads execute

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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