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CVE-2026-104250 (GCVE-0-2026-104250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-13 16:29 – Updated: 2026-10-14 15:32

Title

unstructured: Stored XSS via unescaped HTML generation

Summary

The unstructured library provides open-source components for ingesting and pre-processing images and text documents, such as PDFs, HTML, Word docs, and many more. Prior to 0.24.1, partition_html(html_parser_version="v2") and the VLM partitioner can preserve untrusted document tags, attributes, text, and link targets in metadata.text_as_html, while elements_to_html() emits the result as an HTML document. The to_html() path in unstructured/documents/ontology.py does not escape output or reject unsafe URL schemes, allowing event-handler attributes, attribute breakout markup, and javascript: links to survive parsing. When the generated HTML or text_as_html is rendered in a browser, attacker-controlled script can execute in the viewer's origin, including in document-ingestion workflows where a privileged reviewer opens submitted content. This issue is fixed in version 0.24.1.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-14 15:32 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7609 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/s…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/p…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/c…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/r…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Unstructured-IO	unstructured	Affected: < 0.24.1	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-104250

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-13 17:17 - Updated: 2026-10-16 16:00

Severity

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

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	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/pull/4394
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/releases/tag/0.24.1
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-v5mq-3xhg-98m9
	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-v5mq-3xhg-98m9

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-V5MQ-3XHG-98M9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-15 20:16 – Updated: 2026-10-15 20:16

Summary

unstructured: Stored XSS via unescaped HTML generation

Details

Summary

When unstructured parses an untrusted document and outputs the result as HTML, malicious markup contained in the document (e.g. <img src=x onerror=...>) is left in the output HTML without escaping. When that output is displayed in a browser, the script embedded in the document executes in the viewer's browser.

Details

partition_html(html_parser_version="v2") (and the VLM partitioner) preserve the input document's element tags, attributes, and text into metadata.text_as_html, and elements_to_html() outputs that as an HTML document.

The function that builds HTML on this path, to_html() in unstructured/documents/ontology.py, performs no escaping at all. As a result, event handlers such as onerror / onmouseover / onload originating from the input document are left in the output HTML as-is (literal <script> tags are stripped by the parser, but attribute-based vectors and javascript: URLs are not). In addition, link URLs are not scheme-filtered, so <a href="javascript:..."> is also emitted.

Relevant source: documents/ontology.py (to_html, _construct_attribute_string, _generate_final_html); partition/html/transformations.py (text_as_html = ontology_element.to_html()); partition/html/convert.py (elements_to_html).

PoC

Environment: downloads.unstructured.io/unstructured-io/unstructured:latest, unstructured 0.23.3.

from unstructured.partition.html import partition_html
from unstructured.partition.html.convert import elements_to_html

malicious = ('<body class="Document">'
             '<p class="Paragraph" onmouseover="alert(1)">hello'
             '<img src=x onerror="alert(document.domain)"></p>'
             '<a class="Hyperlink" href="javascript:alert(document.cookie)">click me</a>'
             '</body>')
els = partition_html(text=malicious, html_parser_version="v2")
open("xss_output.html", "w").write(elements_to_html(list(els), no_group_by_page=True))

elements_to_html() output body — the unescaped vectors survive:

<p class="NarrativeText" id="..." onmouseover="alert(1)">
  <p class="Paragraph">hello</p>
  <img class="Image" onerror="alert(document.domain)" src="x"/>
</p>
<a class="UncategorizedText" href="javascript:alert(document.cookie)" id="...">click me</a>

Opening xss_output.html in a browser fires alert automatically (via <img onerror>), with no interaction. Per-vector confirmation (each payload labelled, each verified in a browser):

Vector	Trigger	Cause
`<img onerror>`	open file (auto)	element `text` not escaped
`<svg onload>` (via `title='"><svg ...>'`)	open file (auto)	attribute value not escaped (`"` breakout)
`<a href=javascript:>`	click	link URL scheme not filtered
`onmouseover`	hover	source attribute preserved as-is

Impact

Stored XSS caused by improper output encoding. Anyone who renders the HTML or text_as_html generated from an untrusted document is affected. In an ingestion pipeline where uploaded documents are parsed and a staff member reviews their contents in a web UI, a low-privileged or external submitter can inject malicious HTML; when a privileged reviewer later opens the parsed result, <img onerror> fires in their session with no interaction, leading to cross-record information disclosure and privileged actions.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c= 0.24.0"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "unstructured"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.24.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-104250"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-116",
      "CWE-79"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-10-15T20:16:18Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-10-13T17:17:15Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "### Summary\n\nWhen `unstructured` parses an untrusted document and outputs the result as HTML, malicious markup contained in the document (e.g. `\u003cimg src=x onerror=...\u003e`) is left in the output HTML without escaping. When that output is displayed in a browser, the script embedded in the document executes in the viewer\u0027s browser.\n\n### Details\n\n`partition_html(html_parser_version=\"v2\")` (and the VLM partitioner) preserve the input document\u0027s element tags, attributes, and text into `metadata.text_as_html`, and `elements_to_html()` outputs that as an HTML document.\n\nThe function that builds HTML on this path, `to_html()` in `unstructured/documents/ontology.py`, performs no escaping at all. As a result, event handlers such as `onerror` / `onmouseover` / `onload` originating from the input document are left in the output HTML as-is (literal `\u003cscript\u003e` tags are stripped by the parser, but attribute-based vectors and `javascript:` URLs are not). In addition, link URLs are not scheme-filtered, so `\u003ca href=\"javascript:...\"\u003e` is also emitted.\n\nRelevant source: `documents/ontology.py` (`to_html`, `_construct_attribute_string`, `_generate_final_html`); `partition/html/transformations.py` (`text_as_html = ontology_element.to_html()`); `partition/html/convert.py` (`elements_to_html`).\n\n### PoC\n\nEnvironment: `downloads.unstructured.io/unstructured-io/unstructured:latest`, `unstructured` 0.23.3.\n\n```python\nfrom unstructured.partition.html import partition_html\nfrom unstructured.partition.html.convert import elements_to_html\n\nmalicious = (\u0027\u003cbody class=\"Document\"\u003e\u0027\n             \u0027\u003cp class=\"Paragraph\" onmouseover=\"alert(1)\"\u003ehello\u0027\n             \u0027\u003cimg src=x onerror=\"alert(document.domain)\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u0027\n             \u0027\u003ca class=\"Hyperlink\" href=\"javascript:alert(document.cookie)\"\u003eclick me\u003c/a\u003e\u0027\n             \u0027\u003c/body\u003e\u0027)\nels = partition_html(text=malicious, html_parser_version=\"v2\")\nopen(\"xss_output.html\", \"w\").write(elements_to_html(list(els), no_group_by_page=True))\n```\n\n`elements_to_html()` output body \u2014 the unescaped vectors survive:\n\n```html\n\u003cp class=\"NarrativeText\" id=\"...\" onmouseover=\"alert(1)\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"Paragraph\"\u003ehello\u003c/p\u003e\n  \u003cimg class=\"Image\" onerror=\"alert(document.domain)\" src=\"x\"/\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"UncategorizedText\" href=\"javascript:alert(document.cookie)\" id=\"...\"\u003eclick me\u003c/a\u003e\n```\n\nOpening `xss_output.html` in a browser fires `alert` automatically (via `\u003cimg onerror\u003e`), with no interaction. Per-vector confirmation (each payload labelled, each verified in a browser):\n\n| Vector | Trigger | Cause |\n|---|---|---|\n| `\u003cimg onerror\u003e` | open file (auto) | element `text` not escaped |\n| `\u003csvg onload\u003e` (via `title=\u0027\"\u003e\u003csvg ...\u003e\u0027`) | open file (auto) | attribute value not escaped (`\"` breakout) |\n| `\u003ca href=javascript:\u003e` | click | link URL scheme not filtered |\n| `onmouseover` | hover | source attribute preserved as-is |\n\n### Impact\n\nStored XSS caused by improper output encoding. Anyone who renders the HTML or `text_as_html` generated from an untrusted document is affected. In an ingestion pipeline where uploaded documents are parsed and a staff member reviews their contents in a web UI, a low-privileged or external submitter can inject malicious HTML; when a privileged reviewer later opens the parsed result, `\u003cimg onerror\u003e` fires in their session with no interaction, leading to cross-record information disclosure and privileged actions.",
  "id": "GHSA-v5mq-3xhg-98m9",
  "modified": "2026-10-15T20:16:18Z",
  "published": "2026-10-15T20:16:18Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-v5mq-3xhg-98m9"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104250"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/pull/4394"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commit/cda16b3f2170019be9c6ea5635946fb3eaa2d66f"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/releases/tag/0.24.1"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "unstructured: Stored XSS via unescaped HTML generation"
}

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