Affected versions of cti-transmute improperly handle conversion-table values passed through the search highlighting feature. The highlight() function previously returned the underlying text directly when no search query was supplied, or performed a regex replacement that inserted <mark> tags without first escaping the original content. Because the resulting value is used by an HTML-rendering sink, malicious markup contained in conversion data could be interpreted as HTML rather than displayed as text.
The fix introduces a shared highlightMatches() helper that first converts special characters such as <, >, &, and quotes into HTML entities. Only after escaping does the code insert the application-controlled <mark> element used for search highlighting.
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"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-116",
"CWE-79"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/73xxx/CVE-2026-73161.json",
"cna_assigner": "CIRCL",
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