GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-hh8v-hgvp-g3f5 league/commonmark has an embed extension allowed_domains bypass
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-33347
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- league/commonmark
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-185, CWE-79, CWE-918
- Reviewed
- 2026-03-19
Affected packages
• Packagist league/commonmark: >= 2.3.0, < 2.8.2 → fixed in 2.8.2
Description
Impact
The `DomainFilteringAdapter` in the Embed extension is vulnerable to an allowlist bypass due to a missing hostname boundary assertion in the domain-matching regex. An attacker-controlled domain like `youtube.com.evil` passes the allowlist check when `youtube.com` is an allowed domain.
This enables two attack vectors:
• SSRF: The `OscaroteroEmbedAdapter` makes server-side HTTP requests to the embed URL via the `embed/embed` library. A bypassed domain filter causes the server to make outbound requests to an attacker-controlled host, potentially probing internal services or exfiltrating request metadata.
• XSS: `EmbedRenderer` outputs the oEmbed response HTML directly into the page with no sanitization. An attacker controlling the bypassed domain can return arbitrary HTML/JavaScript in their oEmbed response, which is rendered verbatim.
Any application using the `Embed` extension and relying on `allowed_domains` to restrict domains when processing untrusted Markdown input is affected.
Patches
This has been patched in version 2.8.2. The fix replaces the regex-based domain check with explicit hostname parsing using `parse_url()`, ensuring exact domain and subdomain matching only.
Workarounds
• Disable the `Embed` extension, or restrict its use to trusted users
• Provide your own domain-filtering implementation of `EmbedAdapterInterface`
• Enable a Content Security Policy (CSP) and outbound firewall restrictions
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-33347 league/commonmark is a PHP Markdown parser. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/security/advisories/GHSA-hh8v-hgvp-g3f5 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33347 advisory
- https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/commit/59fb075d2101740c337c7216e3f32b36c204218b web
- https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark package
- https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark/releases/tag/2.8.2 web