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GHSA-pmhh-3w7g-xqp8

jsoup: Cleaner may expose markup with custom raw-text elements

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-71497

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.jsoup:jsoup >= 1.14.3, < 1.23.1 1.23.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

When a custom `Safelist` permits certain raw-text elements, jsoup may incorrectly sanitize malformed HTML containing a tag name that ends in a control character. The tag may acquire the parsing behavior of a different element, causing content that should remain text to be emitted as active markup after serialization and potentially allowing XSS. jsoup’s built-in Safelists are unaffected. ## Patches Upgrade to jsoup 1.23.1. ## Workarounds Until upgrading, do not permit raw-text elements in custom Safelists used to clean untrusted HTML. ## Additional security considerations This fix addresses malformed tag-name handling only. Permitting raw-text elements in a custom `Safelist` does not make their contents inherently safe. For example, applications that permit `style` must apply appropriate CSS safeguards separately, because jsoup does not parse or sanitize CSS.

References

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