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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Confidence
postcss (source) 8.5.88.5.10 age confidence

PostCSS has XSS via Unescaped </style> in its CSS Stringify Output

CVE-2026-41305 / GHSA-qx2v-qp2m-jg93

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PostCSS: XSS via Unescaped </style> in CSS Stringify Output
Summary

PostCSS v8.5.5 (latest) does not escape </style> sequences when stringifying CSS ASTs. When user-submitted CSS is parsed and re-stringified for embedding in HTML <style> tags, </style> in CSS values breaks out of the style context, enabling XSS.

Proof of Concept
const postcss = require('postcss');

// Parse user CSS and re-stringify for page embedding
const userCSS = 'body { content: "</style><script>alert(1)</script><style>"; }';
const ast = postcss.parse(userCSS);
const output = ast.toResult().css;
const html = `<style>${output}</style>`;

console.log(html);
// <style>body { content: "</style><script>alert(1)</script><style>"; }</style>
//
// Browser: </style> closes the style tag, <script> executes

Tested output (Node.js v22, postcss v8.5.5):

Input: body { content: "</style><script>alert(1)</script><style>"; }
Output: body { content: "</style><script>alert(1)</script><style>"; }
Contains </style>: true
Impact

Impact non-bundler use cases since bundlers for XSS on their own. Requires some PostCSS plugin to have malware code, which can inject XSS to website.

Suggested Fix

Escape </style in all stringified output values:

output = output.replace(/<\/(style)/gi, '<\\/$1');
Credits

Discovered and reported by Sunil Kumar (@​TharVid)

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 6.1 / 10 (Medium)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).


Release Notes

postcss/postcss (postcss)

v8.5.10

Compare Source

  • Fixed XSS via unescaped </style> in non-bundler cases (by @​TharVid).

v8.5.9

Compare Source

  • Speed up source map encoding paring in case of the error.

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@renovate renovate Bot added the security label May 9, 2026
@renovate renovate Bot requested a review from henningmu as a code owner May 9, 2026 18:35
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This PR updates the postcss dependency to version 8.5.10 to patch a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) security vulnerability. This is a crucial update that safely prevents CSS strings from breaking out of HTML style tags, and no issues were flagged during the review.

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