CVE-2025-9375: XML Injection Vulnerability in xmltodict 0.14.2 - Mono

I discovered an XML Injection vulnerability in xmltodict version 0.14.2, a popular Python library with over 1.5 million weekly downloads on PyPI. This vulnerability allows attackers to inject arbitrary XML markup through crafted dictionary keys, potentially leading to XML structure manipulation, data corruption, and in web contexts, cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
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