XSS in Juliacomputing Htmlsanitizer.jl

CVE-2025-52561

HTMLSanitizer.jl is a Whitelist-based HTML sanitizer. Prior to version 0.2.1, when adding the style tag to the whitelist, content inside the tag is incorrectly unescaped, and closing tags injected as content are interpreted as real HTML, enabling tag injection and JavaScript execution. This could result in possible cross-site scripting (XSS) in any HTML that is sanitized with this library. This issue has been patched in version 0.2.1. A workaround involves adding the math and svg elements to the whitelist manually.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.1th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 57.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-52561: held from 0.007 to 0.009.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.009 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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