CVE-2020-26870
mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.049 · 92 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Cure53 DOMPurify before 2.0.17 allows mutation XSS. This occurs because a serialize-parse roundtrip does not necessarily return the original DOM tree, and a namespace can change from HTML to MathML, as demonstrated by nesting of FORM elements.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (23)
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- Oracle Retail Applications 18.0.0.14all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:oracle:retail_applications:18.0.0.14
- Oracle Retail Applications 19.0.0.8all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:oracle:retail_applications:19.0.0.8
advisories (2)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- WID-SEC-W-2024-0117Oracle Retail Applications: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-01-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer oder authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Oracle Retail Applications ausnutzen, um die Vertraulichkeit, Integrität und Verfügbarkeit zu gefährden.
- GHSA-63q7-h895-m982Cross-site Scripting in dompurify2020-12-18ghsa · osvUS
Cure53 DOMPurify before 2.0.17 allows mutation XSS. This occurs because a serialize-parse roundtrip does not necessarily return the original DOM tree, and a namespace can change from HTML to MathML, as demonstrated by nesting of FORM elements.
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references (28)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/commit/02724b8eb048dd219d6725b05c3000936f11d62dcnnvd
- https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/compare/2.0.16...2.0.17cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00029.htmlcnnvd
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-17007/CVE-2020-26870cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26870cnnvd
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-26870cnnvd
- https://research.securitum.com/mutation-xss-via-mathml-mutation-dompurify-2-0-17-bypass/cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/DOMPurify-Cross-Site-Scripting-via-Serialize-Parse-Roundtrip-33737cnnvd
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