Medium severity · published Oct 13, 2026
CVE-2026-104250
unstructured: Stored XSS via unescaped HTML generation
6.1
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The unstructured library provides open-source components for ingesting and pre-processing images and text documents, such as PDFs, HTML, Word docs, and many more. Prior to 0.24.1, partition_html(html_parser_version="v2") and the VLM partitioner can preserve untrusted document tags, attributes, text, and link targets in metadata.text_as_html, while elements_to_html() emits the result as an HTML document. The to_html() path in unstructured/documents/ontology.py does not escape output or reject unsafe URL schemes, allowing event-handler attributes, attribute breakout markup, and javascript: links to survive parsing. When the generated HTML or text_as_html is rendered in a browser, attacker-controlled script can execute in the viewer's origin, including in document-ingestion workflows where a privileged reviewer opens submitted content. This issue is fixed in version 0.24.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 14% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UN
unstructured · Unstructured-IO
< 0.24.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104250
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-104250
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/security/advisories/GHSA-v5mq-3xhg-98m9
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/pull/4394
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/commit/cda16b3f2170019be9c6ea5635946fb3eaa2d66f
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured/releases/tag/0.24.1
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