Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input Affecting @xmldom/xmldom package, versions >=0.7.0 <0.8.15>=0.9.0-beta.1 <0.9.12


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.35% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-XMLDOMXMLDOM-19498557
  • published2 Sept 2026
  • disclosed1 Sept 2026
  • creditChristian Bewernitz

Introduced: 1 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-83611  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1286  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade @xmldom/xmldom to version 0.8.15, 0.9.12 or higher.

Overview

@xmldom/xmldom is a javascript ponyfill to provide the following APIs that are present in modern browsers to other runtimes. Since version 0.7.0 this package is published to npm as @xmldom/xmldom and no longer as xmldom

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input via the parseFromString function. An attacker can bypass well-formedness validation by submitting XML data containing an end tag with a line break and trailing content, which is silently accepted and processed without error reporting.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1