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CVE-2026-25896

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25896

Severity

9.3

Critical

CVSS V3

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Summary

fast-xml-parser has an entity encoding bypass via regex injection in DOCTYPE entity names

Description

fast-xml-parser allows users to validate XML, parse XML to JS object, or build XML from JS object without C/C++ based libraries and no callback. From 4.1.3to before 5.3.5, a dot (.) in a DOCTYPE entity name is treated as a regex wildcard during entity replacement, allowing an attacker to shadow built-in XML entities (<, >, &, ", ') with arbitrary values. This bypasses entity encoding and leads to XSS when parsed output is rendered. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.3.5.

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