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WeasyPrint has CSS Injection via Presentational Hints

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 2, 2026 in Kozea/WeasyPrint • Updated Jul 6, 2026

Package

pip weasyprint (pip)

Affected versions

<= 68.1

Patched versions

None

Description

Summary

A CSS injection issue exists in WeasyPrint when HTML presentational hints are enabled. Unescaped attribute values are embedded into CSS, allowing injection of arbitrary CSS declarations. This affects applications processing untrusted HTML input.

Details

File: weasyprint/css/init.py

The background attribute is used to construct CSS:

background-image:url({element.get("background")})

This string is parsed by tinycss2.parse_blocks_contents().

Because the value is not escaped, additional CSS declarations can be injected.

PoC

Impact

  • CSS injection
  • Server-side requests via injected url()
  • Limited to cases where presentational_hints=True

Suggested Fix

References

@liZe liZe published to Kozea/WeasyPrint Jun 2, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 6, 2026
Reviewed Jul 6, 2026
Last updated Jul 6, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-49452

GHSA ID

GHSA-jhhc-3hcp-qhm5

Source code

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