{"id":"GHSA-2rqm-h6hv-g79v","aliases":[],"status":"published","title":"odf-kit has HTML injection leading to XSS in odsToHtml() via unescaped style attribute values","description":"### Summary\n\nODF style values are interpolated into `style=\"...\"` attributes without HTML-escaping in odf-kit's ODS to-HTML renderer (`odsToHtml()`). A double-quote character inside an attacker-controlled style value breaks out of the attribute, allowing arbitrary HTML/attribute injection — and therefore script execution (XSS) — from a crafted `.ods` file wherever the rendered output is inserted as HTML, which is the documented purpose of the function.\n\n### Details\n\nTwo emission sites in `src/ods/to-html/html-renderer.ts` (before 0.14.0, `src/ods-reader/html-renderer.ts`) write document-controlled values into a `style` attribute without escaping:\n\n- **Cell style.** `buildInlineStyle()` assembles a CSS string from the cell's formatting properties (`fo:color`, `fo:font-size`, `fo:font-family`, `fo:background-color`, `fo:text-align`, etc.) with no escaping, and `renderCell` emits it raw as the cell's `style` attribute.\n- **Row height.** `row.height` (from `style:row-height`) is emitted raw into the row element's `style` attribute.\n\nThe same defect in the ODT renderer (`odtToHtml()`) is tracked as GHSA-3cgg-c5pp-57h6 (CVE-2026-113787).\n\n### Impact\n\nAny consumer that renders `odsToHtml()` output as HTML gets XSS from a crafted `.ods` file they convert: untrusted file → arbitrary tags and attributes → script execution in the host page with the page's origin.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixed in 0.14.2. Both sites now route document-controlled values through a shared attribute-escaping helper:\n\n- [`1424227`](https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit/commit/1424227d1ca2716a249b623d1456575ff0331dcc): escape style attribute values in the ODS HTML renderer\n- [`aa64c73`](https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit/commit/aa64c734ebd7e7be40e35fcda83b1144193c3da2): the shared `escapeAttr` helper\n\nUsers should upgrade to 0.14.2 or later.\n\n### Credit\n\nReported by @PethuKannan.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","from":"ghsa"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-10-23T20:55:31Z","modified":"2026-10-23T21:00:05Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"odf-kit","fixed_in":["0.14.2"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"odf-kit","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0.9.8"},{"fixed":"0.14.2"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"odf-kit","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0.9.8"},{"fixed":"0.14.2"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit/security/advisories/GHSA-2rqm-h6hv-g79v","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit/commit/1424227d1ca2716a249b623d1456575ff0331dcc","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2rqm-h6hv-g79v"},{"url":"https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-2rqm-h6hv-g79v","title":"odf-kit has HTML injection leading to XSS in odsToHtml() via unescaped style attribute values","description":"### Summary\n\nODF style values are interpolated into `style=\"...\"` attributes without HTML-escaping in odf-kit's ODS to-HTML renderer (`odsToHtml()`). A double-quote character inside an attacker-controlled style value breaks out of the attribute, allowing arbitrary HTML/attribute injection — and therefore script execution (XSS) — from a crafted `.ods` file wherever the rendered output is inserted as HTML, which is the documented purpose of the function.\n\n### Details\n\nTwo emission sites in `src/ods/to-html/html-renderer.ts` (before 0.14.0, `src/ods-reader/html-renderer.ts`) write document-controlled values into a `style` attribute without escaping:\n\n- **Cell style.** `buildInlineStyle()` assembles a CSS string from the cell's formatting properties (`fo:color`, `fo:font-size`, `fo:font-family`, `fo:background-color`, `fo:text-align`, etc.) with no escaping, and `renderCell` emits it raw as the cell's `style` attribute.\n- **Row height.** `row.height` (from `style:row-height`) is emitted raw into the row element's `style` attribute.\n\nThe same defect in the ODT renderer (`odtToHtml()`) is tracked as GHSA-3cgg-c5pp-57h6 (CVE-2026-113787).\n\n### Impact\n\nAny consumer that renders `odsToHtml()` output as HTML gets XSS from a crafted `.ods` file they convert: untrusted file → arbitrary tags and attributes → script execution in the host page with the page's origin.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixed in 0.14.2. Both sites now route document-controlled values through a shared attribute-escaping helper:\n\n- [`1424227`](https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit/commit/1424227d1ca2716a249b623d1456575ff0331dcc): escape style attribute values in the ODS HTML renderer\n- [`aa64c73`](https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit/commit/aa64c734ebd7e7be40e35fcda83b1144193c3da2): the shared `escapeAttr` helper\n\nUsers should upgrade to 0.14.2 or later.\n\n### Credit\n\nReported by @PethuKannan.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-23T20:55:31Z","modified":"2026-10-23T20:55:33Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:41:35.723785Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-2rqm-h6hv-g79v","title":"odf-kit has HTML injection leading to XSS in odsToHtml() via unescaped style attribute values","description":"### Summary\n\nODF style values are interpolated into `style=\"...\"` attributes without HTML-escaping in odf-kit's ODS to-HTML renderer (`odsToHtml()`). A double-quote character inside an attacker-controlled style value breaks out of the attribute, allowing arbitrary HTML/attribute injection — and therefore script execution (XSS) — from a crafted `.ods` file wherever the rendered output is inserted as HTML, which is the documented purpose of the function.\n\n### Details\n\nTwo emission sites in `src/ods/to-html/html-renderer.ts` (before 0.14.0, `src/ods-reader/html-renderer.ts`) write document-controlled values into a `style` attribute without escaping:\n\n- **Cell style.** `buildInlineStyle()` assembles a CSS string from the cell's formatting properties (`fo:color`, `fo:font-size`, `fo:font-family`, `fo:background-color`, `fo:text-align`, etc.) with no escaping, and `renderCell` emits it raw as the cell's `style` attribute.\n- **Row height.** `row.height` (from `style:row-height`) is emitted raw into the row element's `style` attribute.\n\nThe same defect in the ODT renderer (`odtToHtml()`) is tracked as GHSA-3cgg-c5pp-57h6 (CVE-2026-113787).\n\n### Impact\n\nAny consumer that renders `odsToHtml()` output as HTML gets XSS from a crafted `.ods` file they convert: untrusted file → arbitrary tags and attributes → script execution in the host page with the page's origin.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixed in 0.14.2. Both sites now route document-controlled values through a shared attribute-escaping helper:\n\n- [`1424227`](https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit/commit/1424227d1ca2716a249b623d1456575ff0331dcc): escape style attribute values in the ODS HTML renderer\n- [`aa64c73`](https://github.com/GitHubNewbie0/odf-kit/commit/aa64c734ebd7e7be40e35fcda83b1144193c3da2): the shared `escapeAttr` helper\n\nUsers should upgrade to 0.14.2 or later.\n\n### Credit\n\nReported by @PethuKannan.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-23T20:55:31Z","modified":"2026-10-23T21:00:05.237565089Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:34.700741Z"}]}}