CVE-2026-63670: ApostropheCMS: Mutation-XSS / allowedTags bypass via literal `</textarea/>` solidus close
A mutation-XSS / allowedTags bypass: when textarea (or xmp) is included in allowedTags, an input containing a literal </textarea/> (a solidus right after the RCDATA end-tag name) lets non-allowed markup such as <img src=x onerror=…> pass through sanitizeHtml() live and unescaped, even though img/onerror are not in the allowlist. A spec-compliant browser executes the surviving handler — XSS. This is a literal-solidus variant that bypasses the two most recent fixes in this code area (CVE-2026-40186, CVE-2026-44990), both already applied in 2.17.5. The default configuration is not affected.
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