Highcharts Core: HTML text parsing falls back to unfiltered `innerHTML` during printing
CVE-2026-118244 · GHSA-65hg-cf3f-5m39 · published 28 Oct 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.2 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
Is your app affected by CVE-2026-118244?
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Who is affected
highcharts(npm) >= 12.0.0, < 12.6.1highcharts(npm) >= 13.0.0, <= 13.0.2
How to check
- Run
npm ls highchartsin your project to see the installed version, including copies pulled in by other packages. - Or paste your lockfile into the checker: it lists every package with a known vulnerability, this one included.
- Or run
npx shippable-dev scan localhost:3000in your project folder. It reads your lockfile and flags this vulnerability along with every other known one.
How to fix
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- On >= 12.0.0, < 12.6.1: Upgrade
highchartsto 12.6.1 or later, commit the lockfile and redeploy. - On >= 13.0.0, <= 13.0.2: Upgrade
highchartsto 13.1.0 or later, commit the lockfile and redeploy. - If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
### Impact
When the HTML text parser cannot obtain a document from `DOMParser` because the call throws, it falls back to assigning the raw markup to the `innerHTML` of an element created in the hosting document, and the allow-list is applied only to the resulting DOM afterwards. In Chromium the Trusted Types policy callback that the parser uses throws while a `beforeprint` handler is running, so if the hosting page re-renders the chart from a `beforeprint` handler, every HTML-rendered text option parsed at that moment, such as `useHTML` titles, axis labels and data labels or text set by responsive rules, is inserted unsanitized, and event handlers embedded in that markup run in the origin of the page hosting the chart. Exploitation requires that untrusted data reach the chart configuration, that the hosting page update the chart from a `beforeprint` handler in Chromium, and that printing be started, which the print item of the exporting menu does on its own. Charts built with Highcharts Stock, Maps and Gantt are included, since those ship from the same package as Core.
### Workarounds
**Drop-in fix - for any versions affected (12.0.0-13.0.2).**
Add the below IIFE to run after Highcharts is loaded.
```
((n)=>{n.AST.prototype.parseMarkup=function parseMarkup(t){let e,i=[];t=t.trim().replace(/ style=(["'])/g," data-style=$1");try{e=new DOMParser().parseFromString(tI?tI.createHTML(t):t,"text/html")}catch{}if(!e)try{e=new DOMParser().parseFromString(t,"text/html")}catch{}e||((e=n.doc.implementation.createHTMLDocument("")).body.innerHTML=t);let s=(t,e)=>{let i=t.localName||t.nodeName.toLowerCase(),o={tagName:i};"#text"===i&&(o.textContent=t.textContent||"");let r=t.attributes;if(r){let t={};[].forEach.call(r,e=>{"data-style"===e.name?o.style=tB.parseStyle(e.value):t[e.name]=e.value}),o.attributes=t}if(t.childNodes.length){let e=[];[].forEach.call(t.childNodes,t=>{s(t,e)}),e.length&&(o.children=e)}e.push(o)};return[].forEach.call(e.body.childNodes,t=>s(t,i)),i};})(Highcharts);
```
[Live demo & testing](https://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/pb6jLf7g/)
### Obtaining the patched version
The patched releases are available from all the usual distribution channels. With npm, upgrade the affected package to the patched version listed above, for example npm install highcharts@13.1.0. If you load Highcharts from the CDN, use the versioned URLs on code.highcharts.com, for example https://code.highcharts.com/13.1.0/highcharts.js. For more on each installation method, see the [installation guide](https://www.highcharts.com/docs/getting-started/installation).
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References
- github.com/highcharts/highcharts/security/advisories/GHSA-65hg-cf3f-5m39
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118244
- github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/abde7c576793bf50b0e0636e59b49630de6dd0d5
- github.com/highcharts/highcharts/releases/tag/v13.1.0
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-65hg-cf3f-5m39
- github.com/highcharts/highcharts
Merged from GitHub Advisory Database, OSV. Last updated 29 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON