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CVE-2019-16728

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

DOMPurify before 2.0.1 allows XSS because of innerHTML mutation XSS (mXSS) for an SVG element or a MATH element, as demonstrated by Chrome and Safari.

Affected products

• cure53 DOMPurify: before 2.0.1 — fixed in 2.0.1
• Debian Linux: 9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: cure53 DOMPurify 2.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00029.html
• https://research.securitum.com/dompurify-bypass-using-mxss/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00029.html
• https://research.securitum.com/dompurify-bypass-using-mxss/

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