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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-45801 · published 16 September 2024

CVE-2024-45801: Cure53 dompurify inefficient regular expression (redos) vulnerability

Cure53 · Dompurify

DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. It has been discovered that malicious HTML using special nesting techniques can bypass the depth checking added to DOMPurify in recent releases. It was also possible to use Prototype Pollution to weaken the depth check. This renders dompurify unable to avoid cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.5.4 and 3.1.3 of DOMPurify. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

6.1 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.89% · top 42.1% CWE-1333 · Inefficient regular expression (ReDoS)CWE-1321 · Prototype pollution
6.1CVSS 3.1 base score
0.89%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
3References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. It has been discovered that malicious HTML using special nesting techniques can bypass the depth checking added to DOMPurify in recent releases. It was also possible to use Prototype Pollution to weaken the depth check. This renders dompurify unable to avoid cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.5.4 and 3.1.3 of DOMPurify. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/commit/1e520262bf4c66b5efda49e2316d6d1246ca7b21 Patch
https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/commit/26e1d69ca7f769f5c558619d644d90dd8bf26ebc Patch
https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/security/advisories/GHSA-mmhx-hmjr-r674 Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-45801), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.