lepture/mistune · Security

Mistune: Path Traversal and XSS in Include directive

GHSA ID
GHSA-h7ww-273w-6cm8
CVE ID
CVE-2026-115355
Severity
high
Published
Updated

Description

The Include directive in src/mistune/directives/include.py does not validate that the resolved file path stays within the source directory, allowing path traversal via ../ sequences to read arbitrary files.

Additionally, error messages and included file contents are rendered without HTML escaping, leading to XSS even when escape=True.

Affected functions:

  • Path resolution (lines 27-31)
  • block_error() in html.py (line 140)
  • render_html_include() (line 72)

The Include plugin must be explicitly enabled via the plugins parameter.

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