CVE-2026-44898

Name	CVE-2026-44898
Description	Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.2.1, render_toc_ul() builds a <ul> table-of-contents tree from a list of (level, id, text) tuples. Both the id value (used as href="#<id>") and the text value (used as the visible link label) are inserted into <a> tags via a plain Python format string — with no HTML escaping applied to either value. When heading IDs are derived from user-supplied heading text (the standard use-case for readable slug anchors), an attacker can craft a heading whose text breaks out of the href="#..." attribute context, injecting arbitrary HTML tags including <script> blocks directly into the rendered TOC. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.1.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1138260

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
mistune (PTS)	bullseye	0.8.4-4	vulnerable
	bookworm	2.0.4-1	vulnerable
	trixie	3.1.3-1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	3.1.4-1	vulnerable

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
mistune	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)			1138260

Notes

[trixie] - mistune <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - mistune <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - mistune <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/lepture/mistune/security/advisories/GHSA-6269-cqxg-mhhv