# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53427"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-29T18:50:17.185Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-30T04:37:51.902Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53427"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53427.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53427"
title: "Cross-site scripting in MDEx via unescaped highlight_lines_class code-fence attribute"
summary: "Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in leandrocp MDEx allows stored or reflected cross-site scripting via attacker-controlled Markdown.\n\nWhen syntax highlighting and full info-string forwarding (render: [full_info_string: true]) are enabled, the Lumis adapter copies the value of a code fence's highlight_lines_class info-string attribute, unescaped, into the class attribute of every rendered line. comrak_nif::lumis_adapter::LumisAdapter::parse_custom_attributes in native/comrak_nif/src/lumis_adapter.rs shlex-parses the info string and stores each key=value pair verbatim, highlight_lines_config pulls highlight_lines_class into the per-line class value, and write_highlighted interpolates that value directly into the class attribute of the per-line \u003cdiv\u003e. A single-quoted shell token preserves an inner double quote through shlex parsing, so a value such as '\"\u003e\u003cscript\u003ealert(1)\u003c/script\u003e' terminates the class attribute early and the markup that follows is emitted as live HTML.\n\nAn attacker who can submit Markdown (through comments, posts, wiki pages, documentation, or any user-generated content) can inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript that runs in the browser of every user who views the rendered output, enabling session theft, account takeover, and other client-side attacks. No authentication or special privileges are required.\n\nThe vulnerable native code originally shipped inside mdex (in native/comrak_nif/src/lumis_adapter.rs) and was later extracted into the separate mdex_native package (native/mdex_native_nif/src/lumis_adapter.rs), where it remains unpatched.\n\nThis issue affects mdex from 0.11.3 before 0.12.3, and mdex_native from 0.1.0 before 0.2.3."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0.11.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"0.12.3"}],"vendor":"leandrocp","product":"mdex","packageName":"mdex","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0d7ffc84ea742e1daf666426814e5bb6d0499433","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ed94d905f97af188323f042698ae841c02293b4"}],"vendor":"leandrocp","product":"mdex","packageName":"leandrocp/mdex","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"0.2.3"}],"vendor":"leandrocp","product":"mdex_native","packageName":"mdex_native","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"956528c5e31746253347029e810a969ab916fd27","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"798a363b4339f6f7162ec8437c4c9f9b5ae6fbf3"}],"vendor":"leandrocp","product":"mdex_native","packageName":"leandrocp/mdex_native","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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