EEF-CVE-2026-47080

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CDATA Section Breakout via Unsanitised ]]> in xml_builder

view advisory published 2026-08-21Licence: per source

## Summary XML Injection vulnerability in joshnuss xml_builder (`XmlBuilder` module) allows Content Spoofing, XML Injection. This vulnerability is associated with program files `lib/xml_builder.ex` and program routines `XmlBuilder.generate/1`, `XmlBuilder.generate/2`, `XmlBuilder.escape/1`. The `escape/1` clause for `{:cdata, data}` in `lib/xml_builder.ex` concatenates data verbatim between the CDATA opener `<![CDATA[` and closer `]]>` without rewriting or splitting on the embedded `]]>` sequence. Because CDATA sections have no internal escape mechanism, the only safe way to embed arbitrary bytes is to split on `]]>` and emit adjacent CDATA sections. An attacker who can supply input containing `]]>` closes the CDATA section early; any bytes that follow are parsed as ordinary XML markup by downstream consumers, allowing injection of arbitrary elements, text, or entity references into the output document. This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.7 before 2.4.1.

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