walidriouah/cve-2026-30691CVE-2026-30691: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in @cyntler/react-doc-viewer
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[Suggested description]
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in @cyntler/react-doc-viewer v1.17.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript via a crafted .txt file. The TXTRenderer component fails to sanitize file content and explicitly casts raw data as a ReactNode.
[Additional Information]
"The TXTRenderer is used by default for any text-based files. Since the library is widely used in React applications to preview user-uploaded content, this vulnerability poses a significant risk for applications that do not strictly validate file contents before passing them to the viewer."
[Vulnerability Type] Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
[Vendor of Product] cyntler
[Affected Product Code Base] @cyntler/react-doc-viewer - 1.17.1
[Affected Component] src/renderers/txt/index.tsx
[Attack Type] Remote
[Impact Code execution] true
[Impact Information Disclosure] true
[Attack Vectors]
"An attacker must provide a specially crafted .txt file containing malicious HTML or JavaScript code. When the victim opens this file using the DocViewer component, the script executes in their browser."
[Reference] https://github.com/cyntler/react-doc-viewer/issues/317
[Discoverer] Walid Riouah
Use CVE-2026-30691.
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A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was identified in the @cyntler/react-doc-viewer package (v1.17.1). The vulnerability exists in the TXTRenderer component, which renders raw file content from .txt files by explicitly casting it as a ReactNode without any prior sanitization or entity escaping.
In src/renderers/txt/index.tsx:
{currentDocument?.fileData as ReactNode}
To reproduce the vulnerability, create a file named exploit.txt with the following explicit script payload and load it into the document viewer component:
<h1 style="color: red;">Vulnerable!</h1>
<script>alert('XSS_SUCCESS'); document.body.style.background='red';</script>
<img src=x onerror="console.log('XSS_Executed_Successfully')">
An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser context. This can lead to:
Sanitize the dynamic text input using an HTML sanitization library like DOMPurify before rendering, or avoid unsafe casting of raw string inputs to ReactNode objects:
import DOMPurify from 'dompurify';
const sanitizedHTML = DOMPurify.sanitize(currentDocument?.fileData);
return <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: sanitizedHTML }} />;
Advisory curated by Walid Riouah (Cybersecurity Researcher & Red Teamer)