XSS in ammonia via SVG `animateMotion`, `animateTransform`, and/or `animateColor` tags

The neutralization that ammonia applied to `animate` and `set` was not applied to other forms of SVG animation, which can be used for XSS. The following SVG will produce a link with a javascript scheme. If the user clicks this link, they will run it. ```xml <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <a> <animateMotion attributeName="href" to="javascript:alert('SET_XSS')"></animateMotion> <text y="30">Click set</text> </a> </svg> ``` Ammonia did not apply attribute filters based on `attributeName`, so the contents of the `to`, `from`, and `values` tags were not sanitized as URLs. Applications that do not explicitly allow any of these tags should not be affected, since none are allowed by default. --- This vulnerability was reported by [ucsurf](https://uc.surf).

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10 Oct 2021 12:00:00 UTC

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13 Oct 2026 07:30:02 UTC

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24 Oct 2026 13:19:54 UTC

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