i18nextify is a JavaScript library that adds website internationalization via a script tag, without source code changes. Versions prior to 4.0.8 substitute {{key}} interpolation tokens inside src and href attribute values with the raw string returned by i18next.t(). The substitution logic in src/localize.js (the replaceInside handler) only guards against a duplicated http:// origin prefix — it does not validate the URL scheme of the substituted value. A translated value such as javascript:alert(1) or data:text/html,<script>...</script> is applied unchanged to the live DOM attribute when an attacker can influence the content of a translation file or the translation-backend response — for example, via a compromised translation CDN, user-contributed locales, a MITM on a plain-HTTP backend, or write access to the translation JSON. This issue was patched in version 4.0.8.
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Description i18nextify is a JavaScript library that adds website internationalization via a script tag, without source code changes. Versions prior to 4.0.8 substitute {{key}} interpolation tokens inside src and href attribute values with the raw string returned by i18next.t(). The substitution logic in src/localize.js (the replaceInside handler) only guards against a duplicated http:// origin prefix — it does not validate the URL scheme of the substituted value. A translated value such as javascript:alert(1) or data:text/html,<script>...</script> is applied unchanged to the live DOM attribute when an attacker can influence the content of a translation file or the translation-backend response — for example, via a compromised translation CDN, user-contributed locales, a MITM on a plain-HTTP backend, or write access to the translation JSON. This issue was patched in version 4.0.8.
Title i18nextify is vulnerable to DOM XSS via javascript:/data: URL schemes in translated href/src attributes
Weaknesses CWE-79
CWE-94
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-07T20:01:59.272Z

Reserved: 2026-04-22T03:53:24.407Z

Link: CVE-2026-41692

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-07T21:16:29.717

Modified: 2026-05-07T21:16:29.717

Link: CVE-2026-41692

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-07T21:30:25Z