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CVE-2026-83616— xmldom: Processing Instruction Target Injection Bypasses requireWellFormed

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xmldom xmldom
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom version 0.6.0 and earlier, Document.createProcessingInstruction(target, data) in lib/dom

CVSS 8.7 · High
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-83616

Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
xmldom: Processing Instruction Target Injection Bypasses requireWellFormed
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom version 0.6.0 and earlier, Document.createProcessingInstruction(target, data) in lib/dom.js accepts an unvalidated target, while the requireWellFormed: true serializer checks only for a colon and the reserved case-insensitive xml name on 0.9.x and performs no target check on 0.8.x. Because serialization emits <?target data?>, a target containing >, ?, whitespace, or another invalid XML-name character can break the processing-instruction boundary and inject XML structure. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12; no fixed version is available for xmldom.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
XML注入(XPath盲注)
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
xmldom xmldom <= 0.6.0 -
@xmldom xmldom >= 0.7.0, < 0.8.15 -

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Other References for CVE-2026-83616 (7)

Same Patch Batch · xmldom · 2026-09-01 · 15 CVEs total

CVE-2026-83605 8.7 HIGH xmldom: Attribute name injection via setAttribute() bypasses requireWellFormed
CVE-2026-83606 8.7 HIGH xmldom PI grammar regex ReDoS: quadratic backtracking on unterminated processing instructi
CVE-2026-83607 8.7 HIGH xmldom: Element name injection via createElement() bypasses requireWellFormed
CVE-2026-83609 8.7 HIGH xmldom: Creation-time XML Name/QName validation is bypassable via an embedded line termina
CVE-2026-83613 8.7 HIGH xmldom: Quadratic-time attribute deduplication
CVE-2026-83612 8.7 HIGH xmldom: HTML raw-text closing-tag case mismatch causes output amplification
CVE-2026-83614 8.7 HIGH xmldom: Quadratic-time parsing via the malformed-input recovery path — `parseElementStartP
CVE-2026-83608 8.7 HIGH xmldom: DocType `name` Injection Bypasses requireWellFormed
CVE-2026-83617 8.7 HIGH xmldom: requireWellFormed element/attribute name validation is bypassable via an embedded
CVE-2026-83615 8.7 HIGH xmldom: Quadratic-memory consumption
CVE-2026-83619 8.7 HIGH xmldom: End-tag Whitespace-Trim Regex ReDoS — quadratic backtracking in the 0.8.x end-tag
CVE-2026-83618 8.7 HIGH xmldom: requireWellFormed DocType publicId/systemId validation is bypassable via an embedd
CVE-2026-83611 6.9 MEDIUM xmldom: Parser silently accepts a not-well-formed end tag whose name is followed by a line
CVE-2026-83610 6.3 MEDIUM xmldom: XML fragment injection via invalid EntityReference.nodeName during requireWellForm

IV. Related Vulnerabilities

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Same weakness: CWE-91

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