CVE-2025-7969

Name	CVE-2025-7969
Description	Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in markdown-it allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/renderer.mjs. This issue affects markdown-it: 14.1.0. NOTE: the Supplier does not consider this issue to be a vulnerability.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
node-markdown-it (PTS)	bullseye	10.0.0+dfsg-2+deb11u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid, bookworm, trixie	22.2.3+dfsg+~12.2.3-2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
node-markdown-it	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

Notes

https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/issues/1122
Upstream disputes issue:
https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/issues/1122#issuecomment-3215928097