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Security checkOctober 09, 2026

@tinacms/web-components: `tina-markdown` writes rich-text link URLs into `href` without scheme validation, allowing stor

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Description

<tina-markdown> renders a rich-text AST into the DOM and, for a nodes, assigns the node’s URL straight to the anchor’s href with no scheme check. A link authored in the CMS as javascript:… renders as a live javascript: anchor, so a visitor who clicks it executes attacker-supplied script in the site’s origin.

Recommendation

Update the @tinacms/web-components package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): <= 0.2.0
  • Patched version(s): 0.2.1

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