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SVGO: removeScripts allows executable links through namespace and control-character bypasses

CVE-2026-84370 / GHSA-w27v-7q3p-w38r

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Summary

SVGO's opt-in removeScripts plugin failed to remove some executable links. Namespace-prefixed SVG anchors and URL schemes containing ASCII tabs or newlines could bypass its checks. Applications that used this plugin as their only protection for untrusted SVG input could expose users to cross-site scripting (XSS).

SVGO is an optimizer rather than a comprehensive sanitization library, but removeScripts is maintained for consumers that already rely on it to remove common script execution paths.

Details

Two related bypasses were present:

  1. The plugin inspected unprefixed SVG <a> elements but did not recognize namespace-prefixed SVG anchors such as <svg:a> when the prefix was bound to the SVG namespace. Their executable href or namespaced *:href values remained intact.
  2. The URL check did not account for ASCII tab, line-feed, or carriage-return characters embedded in a scheme. Browsers remove these characters before parsing the scheme, so values such as java&#&#8203;9;script: could remain executable after bypassing the plugin's javascript: check.

Anchors in unrelated custom namespaces are not executable SVG anchors and remain untouched.

Impact

If an application optimized attacker-controlled SVGs with removeScripts and then served the result in an active browser context, a victim could follow a link that executes script in the SVG's origin. Depending on the embedding and origin configuration, this could expose cookies or local storage, modify content, or perform actions as the victim.

The plugin is opt-in, so consumers that do not enable it are not relying on the affected behavior. Typical local optimization of trusted SVG files is not affected.

Patches

Upgrade to one of the following releases for the maintained release line in use:

Release line Patched version Plugin
v2 2.8.4 removeScriptElement
v3 3.3.5 removeScriptElement
v4 4.1.0 removeScripts

The fix makes SVG anchor handling namespace-aware and strips ASCII tabs, line feeds, and carriage returns before checking executable URL schemes.

SVGO v1 is no longer maintained. Users of v1 should upgrade to a supported release line.

Workarounds

For hostile input, use a dedicated SVG sanitization tool before passing the SVG to SVGO. Applications can also reject links from untrusted SVG input and avoid serving user-controlled SVGs in an active same-origin context.

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Severity

  • CVSS Score: 8.2 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

References

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


SVGO: removeScripts incompletely sanitizes executable HTML in SVG foreignObject elements

CVE-2026-84369 / GHSA-4vpr-x523-8j87

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Summary

SVGO's opt-in removeScripts plugin did not inspect executable HTML content inside SVG <foreignObject> elements. Applications that used this plugin as their only protection for untrusted SVG input could produce SVGs containing active HTML and expose users to cross-site scripting (XSS).

SVGO is an optimizer rather than a comprehensive sanitization library, but removeScripts is maintained for consumers that already rely on it to remove common script execution paths.

Details

Although the plugin removed SVG and XHTML <script> elements, it left other HTML execution paths inside <foreignObject> unchanged. These included:

  • event-handler attributes such as onload and onbeforetoggle;
  • srcdoc documents, including on <iframe> elements;
  • executable URLs in HTML attributes such as action, data, formaction, href, and src.

An attacker could place one of these payloads in an SVG. If an application optimized the untrusted SVG with removeScripts and then served the result in an active browser context, the payload could execute in the viewer's origin.

Impact

Successful exploitation could allow script execution in the context where the optimized SVG is rendered. Depending on the embedding and origin configuration, this could expose cookies or local storage, modify content, or perform actions as the victim.

The plugin is opt-in, so consumers that do not enable removeScripts are not relying on the affected behavior. Typical local optimization of trusted SVG files is not affected.

Patches

Upgrade to one of the following releases for the maintained release line in use:

Release line Patched version Plugin
v2 2.8.4 removeScriptElement
v3 3.3.5 removeScriptElement
v4 4.1.0 removeScripts

The fix preserves visual HTML inside SVG <foreignObject> elements while removing event attributes, srcdoc, and executable URL values from active HTML URL attributes.

SVGO v1 is no longer maintained. Users of v1 should upgrade to a supported release line.

Workarounds

For hostile input, use a dedicated SVG sanitization tool before passing the SVG to SVGO. As defense in depth, applications can reject or remove <foreignObject> content and avoid serving user-controlled SVGs in an active same-origin context.

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

svg/svgo (svgo)

v4.1.0

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This minor release upgrades the SAX parser and introduces stricter XML validation. It also includes important security hardening for removeScripts, dependency updates, and improvements to the test and regression infrastructure.

Support SVGO

If SVGO is valuable to you or your organization, please consider supporting the project on OpenCollective. Your sponsorship helps fund ongoing maintenance and security work.

Stricter XML validation

SVGO now uses sax 1.6.1, upgraded from 1.5.0 (#​2257).

The new parser version validates numeric character references against the ranges permitted by XML. Invalid references are now rejected in both text and attributes, including:

  • disallowed control characters such as &#&#8203;1;, &#xB;, and &#x1F;;
  • UTF-16 surrogate code points such as &#xD800;;
  • invalid XML code points such as &#xFFFF;.

Valid boundary values—including U+0020, U+D7FF, U+E000, U+FFFD, and characters through U+10FFFF—remain supported.

Parser failures are consistently exposed as SvgoParserError errors with an Invalid character entity reason.

This is an intentional behavior change: malformed SVGs that were previously accepted may now produce a parser error, while valid XML documents are unaffected.

Security

The removeScripts plugin has been hardened against several script-execution bypasses:

  • Filters executable data: URLs containing HTML, XHTML, or SVG documents while preserving inert data such as PNG images, and filters legacy vbscript: URLs (#​2263).
  • Sanitizes content inside SVG <foreignObject> elements by removing HTML event-handler attributes, srcdoc, and executable URLs from action, data, formaction, href, and src, while preserving non-executable HTML and visual content (#​2264).
  • Recognizes namespace-prefixed SVG <a> elements and removes ASCII tabs and newlines before checking URL schemes, preventing values such as java&#&#8203;9;script: from bypassing detection while preserving elements in unrelated custom namespaces (#​2268).

These changes address:

Dependencies
  • Upgraded css-select to v6 and css-what to v7, and updated SVGO's custom selector adapter for css-select v6 (#​2244).
Project maintenance

@​TrySound is back as an active SVGO maintainer.

Many thanks to @​KTibow, @​SethFalco, and @​XhmikosR for maintaining and improving SVGO over the past several years.

Full Changelog: svg/svgo@v4.0.2...v4.1.0


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