CVE-2026-44644CWE-79

LiquidJS's strip_html filter bypass via newline characters in HTML tags enables XSS

Medium · published June 17, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
28.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

LiquidJS is a Shopify/GitHub Pages compatible template engine written in pure JavaScript. Versions 10.25.7 and below are vulnerable to XSS through a flaw in the strip_html filter logic. The strip_html filter is intended to remove HTML tags from a string before rendering, and is widely used as an XSS sanitizer. The implementation uses a regex whose catch-all branch (<.*?>) does not match line terminators, so any HTML tag containing a \n or \r character passes through unmodified. An attacker who can place a newline inside a tag (e.g. <img\nsrc=x\nonerror=alert(1)>) bypasses sanitization entirely, since browsers treat newlines as whitespace within a tag and execute the resulting onerror/onload/etc. handler. Exploitation is possible for applications that both render attacker-controlled strings via {{ x | strip_html }} to defend against HTML injection and do not separately HTML-escape that output (default behavior — outputEscape is unset by default). This issue has been fixed in version 10.26.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00355 · 28.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-06-17T21:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUN 21:50Z
    LiquidJS's strip_html filter bypass via newline characters in HTML tags enables XSS
    cvelistv5