GHSA-jf6w-2mvx-633j: justhtml: to_markdown() code-span blank-line breakout enables XSS
In justhtml 0.9.0 through 1.21.0, to_markdown() renders <code> text (and <pre> text inside a link) as an inline Markdown code span whose only protection is backtick-fence length. A blank line (\n\n) in that text terminates the inline span in any compliant Markdown renderer, so attacker-controlled text that survived HTML sanitization is emitted unescaped after the blank line and is re-parsed as live raw HTML/Markdown — yielding XSS in the default configuration. Likely CWE-79 (Cross-site Scripting) arising from CWE-116 (Improper Encoding/Escaping of Output).
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