High severity · published Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2026-45617
LiquidJS: ReDoS via Quadratic Backtracking in `strip_html` Filter Regex
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
LiquidJS is a Shopify/GitHub Pages compatible template engine written in pure JavaScript. In versions 10.25.7 and below, the built-in strip_html filter uses a regex containing four flawed lazy-quantified alternatives, leading to ReDoS via quadratic backtracking. When the input contains many <script, <style, or <!-- opener tokens without matching closers, the V8 regex engine performs O(N²) backtracking, blocking the Node.js event loop. A single ~350 KB request ('<script'.repeat(50000)) stalls the process for ~10 seconds; cost grows quadratically with input size. The default memoryLimit: Infinity does not bound regex CPU, and even when configured strip_html only charges str.length to the limit — the regex itself runs unbounded. A single unauthenticated request containing crafted untrusted input can cause severe event-loop blocking and CPU amplification that saturates Node.js workers while bypassing memoryLimit protections. This issue has been fixed in version 10.26.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
liquidjs · harttle
< 10.26.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45617
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45617
github.com
https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/commit/3616a744b9abeb425c217b340a2397d46176afb8
github.com
https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/releases/tag/v10.26.0
github.com
https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/security/advisories/GHSA-r7g9-xpmj-5fcq
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