In short
- CVE-2026-61824 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.2) vulnerability affecting defuddle.
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.41%, higher than 35.5% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 0.19.1 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| defuddle npm | < 0.19.1
| 0.19.1
|
Description
Summary
An Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation issue in the site extractor component allows an attacker-controlled attribute value to be injected into output HTML without escaping. An attacker who crafts a malicious HTML page or controls content on a matching domain can execute arbitrary scripts when a victim processes the page, resulting in Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This affects defuddle through 0.19.0 and has been patched in version 0.19.1.
Impact
This vulnerability allows for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) execution without needing to compromise external websites. Affected consumers include:
- Obsidian Web Clipper,
- web services serving the parsed output directly as HTML, and
- any downstream application rendering the unsanitized HTML results
Patch
This issue has been patched in defuddle version 0.19.1. Users are encouraged to update to the latest release.
NVD description
Defuddle cleans up HTML pages. Prior to 0.19.1, site extractors interpolate page-derived image alt and src values, og:image values, and video descriptions into HTML strings without context-appropriate escaping, and buildExtractorResponse() returns this contentHtml without the main pipeline's DOM-based sanitization. The affected paths include src/extractors/x-article.ts, src/extractors/substack.ts, and src/extractors/youtube.ts. A malicious page or attacker-controlled content on a matching domain can inject event-handler attributes or javascript URLs that execute when a victim or downstream application renders the extracted HTML. This issue is fixed in version 0.19.1.
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