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🛡️ CVE-2026-66010 on Ubuntu — node-dompurify

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

DOMPurify before 3.4.12 fails to execute afterSanitizeElements hook for custom elements allowed via CUSTOM_ELEMENT_HANDLING.tagNameCheck, allowing attributes to bypass application security policies. Attackers can preserve sensitive attributes on custom elements that later re-inject them into innerHTML sinks, creating second-order XSS gadgets.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-66010 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package node-dompurify. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must actively cooperate. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: None — no deployment-specific condition has to hold.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Active — the victim has to cooperate with the attack.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66010 is classified as CWE-184: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs. The product implements a protection mechanism that relies on a list of inputs (or properties of inputs) that are not allowed by policy or otherwise require other action to neutralize before additional processing takes place, but the list is incomplete.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66010 is recorded against 1 package.

  • node-dompurify

Timeline and source

Published on 24 July 2026 and last revised on 29 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)
www.vulncheck.com (Report)

Other advisories for this package

node-dompurify has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-184: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs) in other software:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
node-dompurify — —

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