CVE-2026-83616 (GCVE-0-2026-83616)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:45 – Updated: 2026-09-01 15:18
VLAI
Title
xmldom: Processing Instruction Target Injection Bypasses requireWellFormed
Summary
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom version 0.6.0 and earlier, Document.createProcessingInstruction(target, data) in lib/dom.js accepts an unvalidated target, while the requireWellFormed: true serializer checks only for a colon and the reserved case-insensitive xml name on 0.9.x and performs no target check on 0.8.x. Because serialization emits <?target data?>, a target containing >, ?, whitespace, or another invalid XML-name character can break the processing-instruction boundary and inject XML structure. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12; no fixed version is available for xmldom.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:18 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-91 - XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
xmldom xmldom Affected: <= 0.6.0
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@xmldom xmldom Affected: >= 0.7.0, < 0.8.15
Affected: >= 0.9.0, < 0.9.12
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