CVE-2025-54881
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CVE-2025-54881 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.3/10 on the CVSS scale. Mermaid is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that uses Markdown-inspired text definitions and a renderer to create and modify complex diagrams. In the default configuration of mermaid 10.9.0-rc.1 to 11.9.0, user supplied input for sequence diagram labels is passed to innerHTML during calculation of element size, causing XSS.. EPSS estimates a 0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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Mermaid is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that uses Markdown-inspired text definitions and a renderer to create and modify complex diagrams. In the default configuration of mermaid 10.9.0-rc.1 to 11.9.0, user supplied input for sequence diagram labels is passed to innerHTML during calculation of element size, causing XSS.
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