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AIKIDO-2026-722686

@bbob/preset-html5 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)CVE-2026-68550 Published 2 days ago

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High Risk

This Affects:

JS@bbob/preset-html5
2.5.8 - 4.3.1
Fixed in 4.4.0
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TL;DR

@bbob/preset-html5 defines the default HTML5 tag set, and its [url] tag emits an anchor whose href comes from user input and is sanitized by escapeAttrValue. The URL-scheme guard only matches a contiguous scheme token, so control characters inside the scheme keyword bypass it while browsers still resolve the URL. A [url] value containing java script: therefore renders an href that runs script when the link is followed. The fix strips ASCII tab, newline, and carriage-return characters before applying the scheme guard.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and you render user-controlled BBCode to HTML.

Background info

@bbob/preset-html5 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in versions 2.5.8 - 4.3.1.

How to fix this

Upgrade the @bbob/preset-html5 library to the patch version.