GHSA-hvqh-jw65-wcpq: devbridge-autocomplete has XSS in its default formatters: formatGroup and formatResult fail to escape HTML in untrusted inputs

June 22, 2026

The default formatGroup and formatResult functions in devbridge-autocomplete concatenate values into HTML without escaping, allowing XSS when an attacker controls (or can taint) the suggestion data source.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-hvqh-jw65-wcpq
github.com/devbridge/jQuery-Autocomplete/commit/63ff096ff5b77a90aac7fb5dad7c86e538a59ce0
github.com/devbridge/jQuery-Autocomplete/security/advisories/GHSA-hvqh-jw65-wcpq

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