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Description
XML Injection vulnerability in joshnuss xml_builder (XmlBuilder module) allows Content Spoofing, XML Injection.
This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/xml_builder.ex and program routines XmlBuilder.generate/1, XmlBuilder.generate/2, XmlBuilder.element/1, XmlBuilder.element/2, XmlBuilder.element/3.
Element names, attribute names, and doctype identifiers are interpolated verbatim into the serialized XML output without validation or escaping of structural characters (<, >, ", ', &). An attacker who can influence a name argument (for example, an element name derived from a JSON object key or an HTTP form field name) can inject arbitrary XML markup including extra elements, comments, and event-handler attributes into the output document.
This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.1 before 2.4.1.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-91
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XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-250
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XML Injection
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / xml_builder Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / joshnuss/xml_builder Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
References
GHSA-r82p-3q2p-728w ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-48590 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N