CVE-2026-25896 (CVSS 9.3) disclosed in fast-xml-parser
A critical entity encoding bypass affects fast-xml-parser (40M+ weekly npm downloads).
-Allows attackers to shadow built-in XML entities (<, >, &, ", ')
-Can lead to XSS or injection when parsing untrusted XML and rendering the output
-Exploitable with default settings (processEntities: true)
-Impacts >= 4.1.3 and < 5.3.5, including transitive dependencies
Fix: upgrade to v5.3.5+
Advisory: GHSA-m7jm-9gc2-mpf2
https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/cve-2026-25896-fast-xml-parser