CDATA Section Breakout via Unsanitised ]]> in xml_builder
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 2.1epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
XML Injection vulnerability in joshnuss xml_builder (XmlBuilder module) allows Content Spoofing, XML Injection.
This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/xml_builder.ex and program routines XmlBuilder.generate/1, XmlBuilder.generate/2, XmlBuilder.escape/1.
The escape/1 clause for {:cdata, data} in lib/xml_builder.ex concatenates data verbatim between the CDATA opener <![CDATA[ and closer ]]> without rewriting or splitting on the embedded ]]> sequence. Because CDATA sections have no internal escape mechanism, the only safe way to embed arbitrary bytes is to split on ]]> and emit adjacent CDATA sections. An attacker who can supply input containing ]]> closes the CDATA section early; any bytes that follow are parsed as ordinary XML markup by downstream consumers, allowing injection of arbitrary elements, text, or entity references into the output document.
This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.7 before 2.4.1.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
Affected products
joshnuss · xml_builderpublic PoCs found — 1
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References
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-47080.htmlhttps://github.com/joshnuss/xml_builder/commit/bfb1ada071ccc1e384c30f782197ca5154106706https://github.com/joshnuss/xml_builder/security/advisories/GHSA-67r9-hmxw-h595https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-47080https://vincent.vulcoord.net/score/?state=Not+Scored&year=2026&year=2025&assigned_to=88bc49d9-8ddd-4227-affc-a613e67abc4d&ordering=-published&cve=CVE-2026-47080