CVE-2026-15037

Summary

Improper output neutralization (XML injection) in QDom comment, CDATA, and processing-instruction serialization in Qt XML from 4.0.0 through 6.11 allows untrusted text serialized by an application into those nodes to inject arbitrary XML markup, because the node terminators are not escaped under the default InvalidDataPolicy (AcceptInvalidChars). Fixed in Qt 6.12.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
QtQt4.0.0 < 6.12.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-91: CWE-91 XML injection (aka blind XPath injection)

Workarounds

On all affected versions, set the invalid-data policy before building documents:QDomImplementation::setInvalidDataPolicy(QDomImplementation::ReturnNullNode); (or DropInvalidChars). With ReturnNullNode, the QDom factory functions return a null node when given data that is invalid per XML 1.0 — check the return value. As additional defence-in-depth, validate untrusted input before inserting it and do not treat QDom output as trusted structure downstream.

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References