CVE-2026-48590
lowpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 13 %ileUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.element/1, XmlBuilder.element/2, XmlBuilder.element/3. Element names, attribute names, and doctype identifiers are interpolated verbatim into the serialized XML output without validation or escaping of structural characters (<, >, ", ', &). An attacker who can influence a name argument (for example, an element name derived from a JSON object key or an HTTP form field name) can inject arbitrary XML markup including extra elements, comments, and event-handler attributes into the output document. This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.1 before 2.4.1.
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- EEF-CVE-2026-48590Element and Attribute Names Injected Verbatim into XML Output in xml_builder2026-08-21vendor · osvUS
## 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.element/1`, `XmlBuilder.element/2`, `XmlBuilder.element/3`. Element names, attribute names, and doctype identifiers are interpolated verbatim into the serialized XML output without validation or escaping of structural characters (`<`, `>`, `"`, `'`, `&`). An attacker who can influence a name argument (for example, an element name derived from a JSON object key or an HTTP form field name) can inject arbitrary XML markup including extra elements, comments, and event-handler attributes into the output document. This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.1 before 2.4.1.
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