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Vendor revision: Sep 6, 2026See the Microsoft Security Update Guide for the update that applies to your product.
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-83607 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 8.7. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
See the Microsoft Security Update Guide for the update that applies to your product.
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.14 and 0.9.11, and in xmldom version 0.6.0 and earlier, Document.createElement(tagName) stores an unvalidated element name and XMLSerializer.serializeToString() emits that name verbatim.
The requireWellFormed: true path did not validate the element qualified name or synthesized xmlns:PREFIX declaration, so attacker-controlled tag names could inject attributes, elements, or processing instructions into serialized XML or HTML and could cause cross-site scripting when browser-consumed.
The unchecked values violate the XML QName constraint, and default serialization and creation-time createElement() behavior remain permissive. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.14 and 0.9.11; no fixed version is available for xmldom.
Source: NVD