← WebKit Silent-Fix Report — 2026-W21

b9e630270a  Fix fragment parsing of xmlns="" inheritance and annotation-xml encoding

severity low class Bypass confidence 0.40 WebCore HTML/XML fragment parsing
Anne van Kesteren Sat May 23 23:32:52 2026 -0700 full: b9e630270a1d655f2fdc0cc7121cfe04d961d849 bug report ↗ view on GitHub ↗
Primitive: namespace/integration-point confusion in fragment parsing
Triage note: Fragment-parsing namespace and integration-point handling underlies mutation-XSS/sanitizer soundness, so it carries a mild bypass angle.

Security-relevant, below the exploitable-grade bar for a full root-cause writeup. The triage verdict is above; the side-by-side patch is below.

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