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setHTML() / Sanitizer explictly call out that re-parsing (mXSS) is still a danger
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#43.386 aperta il 9 mar 2026
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MDN URL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/setHTML
What specific section or headline is this issue about?
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What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
Nothing
What did you expect to see?
I think we should try to explain that it's unsafe to something like this:
div.setHTML(code);
other_div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML
It's also unsafe to use the result of innerHTML save it in a database and serve again without using setHTML.
setHTML can't protect against bugs caused by the HTML code being parsed again (mXSS)
Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?
https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/#mutated-xss
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