{"@context":"https://openvex.dev/ns/v0.2.0","@id":"https://database.harborguard.co/cve/CVE-2026-44990/vex.json","author":"HarborGuard Database","role":"Document Creator","timestamp":"2026-06-15T13:04:56.814Z","version":1,"tooling":"HarborGuard Database (https://database.harborguard.co)","statements":[{"vulnerability":{"name":"CVE-2026-44990","@id":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44990","description":"ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system, and sanitize-html provides a simple HTML sanitizer with a clear API. Under the default configuration, versions of `sanitize-html` prior to 2.17.4 can turn attacker-controlled content inside a disallowed `xmp` element into live HTML or JavaScript. This is a sanitizer bypass in the default `disallowedTagsMode: 'discard'` path and can lead to stored XSS in applications that render sanitized output back to users. Version 2.17.4 patch"},"products":[{"@id":"cpe:2.3:a:apostrophecms:sanitize-html:\\<_2.17.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","identifiers":{"cpe23":"cpe:2.3:a:apostrophecms:sanitize-html:\\<_2.17.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"status":"affected","action_statement":"No fixed version is published yet; monitor the upstream advisory.","timestamp":"2026-06-15T13:04:56.814Z"}]}