This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/xml_builder.ex and program routines XmlBuilder.generate/1, XmlBuilder.generate/2, XmlBuilder.escape_string/1, XmlBuilder.escape_entity/1.
XmlBuilder.generate/1 does not escape literal & characters in text or attribute values when they are followed by an entity-like token (lt;, gt;, amp;, quot;, apos;). As a result, attacker-supplied input such as <script> is emitted verbatim into the serialized XML rather than being escaped to &lt;script&gt;. When a downstream XML parser later reads the document, it decodes the entity sequences into the literal characters <script>, promoting inert-looking text into real markup. This allows an attacker to bypass upstream filters that block raw < and > characters, injecting markup into any downstream consumer that parses the produced XML and renders the text content in a markup-sensitive context (HTML, SVG, RSS/Atom feeds). Both element text and attribute values are affected.
This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.6 before 2.4.1.
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| Description | Inappropriate Encoding for Output Context vulnerability in joshnuss xml_builder (XmlBuilder module) allows Content Spoofing, Cross-site Scripting. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/xml_builder.ex and program routines XmlBuilder.generate/1, XmlBuilder.generate/2, XmlBuilder.escape_string/1, XmlBuilder.escape_entity/1. XmlBuilder.generate/1 does not escape literal & characters in text or attribute values when they are followed by an entity-like token (lt;, gt;, amp;, quot;, apos;). As a result, attacker-supplied input such as <script> is emitted verbatim into the serialized XML rather than being escaped to &lt;script&gt;. When a downstream XML parser later reads the document, it decodes the entity sequences into the literal characters <script>, promoting inert-looking text into real markup. This allows an attacker to bypass upstream filters that block raw < and > characters, injecting markup into any downstream consumer that parses the produced XML and renders the text content in a markup-sensitive context (HTML, SVG, RSS/Atom feeds). Both element text and attribute values are affected. This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.6 before 2.4.1. | |
| Title | Round-trip Corruption via Improper Entity Escaping in xml_builder | |
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Joshnuss
Joshnuss xml Builder |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-838 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:joshnuss:xml_builder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Joshnuss
Joshnuss xml Builder |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-21T12:19:47.179Z
Reserved: 2026-05-18T17:28:10.319Z
Link: CVE-2026-47079
Updated: 2026-08-21T12:18:04.561Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-21T10:16:38.167
Modified: 2026-08-21T13:18:05.697
Link: CVE-2026-47079
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Updated: 2026-08-21T12:45:03Z