Versions of the package github.com/yuin/goldmark/renderer/html before 1.7.17 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper ordering of URL validation and normalization. The renderer validates link destinations using a prefix-based check (IsDangerousURL) before resolving HTML entities. This allows an attacker to bypass protocol filtering by encoding dangerous schemes using HTML5 named character references. For example, a payload such as javascript:alert(1) is not recognized as dangerous during validation, leading to arbitrary script execution in the context of applications that render the URL.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-79"
],
"cna_assigner": "snyk",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/5xxx/CVE-2026-5160.json"
}{
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.7.17"
}
],
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:yuin:goldmark:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"CPE_RANGE",
"REFERENCES"
]
}