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GHSA-fm7p-gw32-828p: mathlive's Lack of Escaping of HTML allows for XSS

mediumCVSS 6.3CVE-2026-54705
Summary Despite the 0.104.0 patch escaping attribute-bearing constructs (\htmlData, \href), text-content reflection was missed. The \text{}, \mbox{} commands accept arbitrary characters in their body and emit them raw and unescaped into both the HTML markup and the MathML output, leading to XSS. Details Box.toMarkup at src/core/box.ts:356 concatenates this.value into the rendered span without HTML-escaping. In text mode any literal character (<, >, &, ") is wrapped into a TextAtom whose value is the raw codepoint and lands in the markup unchanged. The MathML serializer at src/formats/atom-to-math-ml.ts is independently broken: xmlEscape deliberately omits the & rule, and scanText, case 'text', and the mode === 'text' early return all emit atom.value raw. Both outputs flow into innerHTML sinks via the public API. <math-span> / <math-div> (src/public/math-static-elements.ts:331,407) bypass MathfieldElement.createHTML entirely. The editor and SSR paths route through createHTML, but its default value is the identity function (src/public/mathfield-element.ts:789). PoC 1. Go to https://mathlive.io/mathfield/demo/ 2. open DevTools console and paste: const s = document.createElement('math-span'); s.style.display = 'block'; s.textContent = '\\text{<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>}'; document.body.appendChild(s); s.scrollIntoView(); Equivalent payloads: \mbox{<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>} or import { convertLatexToMarkup } from 'mathlive'; document.body.innerHTML = convertLatexToMarkup('\\text{<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>}'); Impact MathLive users who render untrusted mathematical expressions can encounter malicious input that runs arbitrary JavaScript.

Details

Source
GitHub Security Advisories (INTL · database · site)
Severity
medium — CVSS 6.3
Published
2026-07-29
Last updated
2026-07-29
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fm7p-gw32-828p

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