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CVE-2026-8445: justhtml 0 to before 1.12.0

CVE-2026-8445. CVSS 3.1 base score 9.8 (CRITICAL, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00635 (percentile 0.48941), scored 11-Oct-2026.

Affected technology

justhtml · 0 to before 1.12.0
EmilStenstrom

Description’s affected range: versions <= 1.11.0 (fixed in 1.12.0) do not sufficiently escape HTML-significant characters (angle brackets) in text nodes when converting a parsed document to Markdown via to_markdown()

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 4.0): Network (remote) · No privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 9.3/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.

Published 12-Oct-2026 16:54 UTC

CWE: CWE-79
CCR priority: 39.4 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 9.8 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · Vendor/CNA
EPSS: 0.00635 · percentile 0.48941 · 2026-10-11
KEV: no

Provenance

NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-12 16:54:24.294989+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-8445.html