GHSA-26wg-9xf2-q495: Novu has a XSS sanitization bypass

April 14, 2026

XSS sanitization is incomplete, some attributes are missing such as oncontentvisibilityautostatechange=. This allows for the email preview to render HTML that executes arbitrary JavaScript,

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-26wg-9xf2-q495
github.com/novuhq/novu
github.com/novuhq/novu/security/advisories/GHSA-26wg-9xf2-q495

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