Improper Input Validation Affecting @xmldom/xmldom package, versions <0.7.7 >=0.8.0 <0.8.4 >=0.9.0-beta.1 <0.9.0-beta.4

@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 Input Validation due to parsing XML that is not well-formed, and contains multiple top-level elements. All the root nodes are being added to the childNodes collection of the Document, without reporting or throwing any error.

One of the following approaches might help, depending on your use case:

1. Instead of searching for elements in the whole DOM, only search in the documentElement.

2. Reject a document with a document that has more than 1 childNode.

var DOMParser = require('xmldom').DOMParser;
var xmlData = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n' +
'<root>\n' +
'  <branch girth="large">\n' +
'    <leaf color="green" />\n' +
'  </branch>\n' +
'</root>\n' +
'<root>\n' +
'  <branch girth="twig">\n' +
'    <leaf color="gold" />\n' +
'  </branch>\n' +
'</root>\n';
var xmlDOM = new DOMParser().parseFromString(xmlData);
console.log(xmlDOM.toString());

This will result with the following output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>
  <branch girth="large">
    <leaf color="green"/>
  </branch>
</root>
<root>
  <branch girth="twig">
    <leaf color="gold"/>
  </branch>
</root>

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