rails · alexanderadam · Oct 10, 2025
diff --git a/data/custom.xml b/data/custom.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,39 @@
   <mime-type type="image/svg+xml">
     <sub-class-of type="application/xml" />
 
+    <magic priority="80">
+      <!-- That's the easiest variant: matching SVG files that start with <svg immediately -->
+      <match value="&lt;svg" type="string" offset="0" />
+    </magic>
+
+    <magic priority="75">
+      <!-- Match SVG files that start with XML declaration followed by <svg -->
+      <match value="&lt;?xml" type="string" offset="0">
+        <match value="&lt;svg" type="string" offset="25:512" />
+      </match>
+    </magic>
+
+    <magic priority="70">
+      <!-- Match SVG files with DOCTYPE followed by <svg -->
+      <match value="&lt;!DOCTYPE svg" type="string" offset="0">
+        <match value="&lt;svg" type="string" offset="25:1024" />
+      </match>
+    </magic>
+
+    <magic priority="65">
+      <!-- Match SVG files with comments followed by <svg -->
+      <match value="&lt;!--" type="string" offset="0">
+        <match value="&lt;svg" type="string" offset="4:1024" />
+      </match>
+    </magic>
+
     <magic priority="60">
-      <match value="&lt;svg" type="string" offset="0:4096" />
+      <!-- Match SVG files with whitespace before <svg tag -->
+      <match value=" &lt;svg" type="string" offset="0" />
+      <match value="\n&lt;svg" type="string" offset="0" />
+      <match value="\r&lt;svg" type="string" offset="0" />
+      <match value="\r\n&lt;svg" type="string" offset="0" />
+      <match value="\t&lt;svg" type="string" offset="0" />
     </magic>
   </mime-type>
 

diff --git a/lib/marcel/tables.rb b/lib/marcel/tables.rb
@@ -2519,7 +2519,7 @@ module Marcel
     ['image/vnd.adobe.photoshop', [[0, b["8BPS\000\001"]], [0, b["8BPS\000\002"]]]],
     ['image/webp', [[0, b['RIFF'], [[8, b['WEBP']]]]]],
     ['text/html', [[0, b['(?i)<(html|head|body|title|div)[ >]']], [0, b['(?i)<h[123][ >]']]]],
-    ['image/svg+xml', [[0..4096, b['<svg']]]],
+    ['image/svg+xml', [[0, b['<svg']]]],
     ['video/x-msvideo', [[0, b['RIFF'], [[8, b['AVI ']]]], [8, b['AVI ']]]],
     ['video/x-ms-wmv', [[0..8192, b['Windows Media Video']], [0..8192, b['VC-1 Advanced Profile']], [0..8192, b['wmv2']]]],
     ['video/mp4', [[4, b['ftypmp41']], [4, b['ftypmp42']]]],
@@ -2541,12 +2541,15 @@ module Marcel
     ['application/x-endnote-refer', [[0..50, b['%A '], [[0..1000, b["\n%D "], [[0..1000, b["\n%T "]]]]]]]],
     ['application/x-ms-owner', [[0, b["(?s)^([\\\\005-\\\\017])[\\\\000\\\\040-\\\\176]{10}.{43}\\\\1\\000"]]]],
     ['application/x-tmx', [[0..256, b['<tmx']]]],
+    ['image/svg+xml', [[0, b['<?xml'], [[25..512, b['<svg']]]]]],
     ['application/mbox', [[0, b['From '], [[32..256, b["\nFrom: "]], [32..256, b["\nDate: "]], [32..256, b["\nSubject: "]], [32..256, b["\nDelivered-To: "]], [32..256, b["\nReceived: by "]], [32..256, b["\nReceived: via "]], [32..256, b["\nReceived: from "]], [32..256, b["\nMime-Version: "]], [32..256, b["\nX-"], [[32..8192, b["\nFrom: "]], [32..8192, b["\nDate: "]], [32..8192, b["\nSubject: "]], [32..8192, b["\nDelivered-To: "]], [32..8192, b["\nReceived: by "]], [32..8192, b["\nReceived: via "]], [32..8192, b["\nReceived: from "]], [32..8192, b["\nMime-Version: "]]]]]]]],
     ['application/x-bplist', [[0, b["bplist\000\000"]], [0, b["bplist\000\001"]], [0, b["bplist@\000"]], [0, b['bplist00']], [0, b['bplist01']], [0, b['bplist10']], [0, b['bplist15']], [0, b['bplist16']]]],
     ['application/x-dvd-ifo', [[0, b['DVDVIDEO-VTS']], [0, b['DVDVIDEO-VMG']]]],
     ['application/x-ebu-stl', [[3, b['STL'], [[8, b['.01']]]]]],
     ['application/x-ms-nls', [[0, b["(?s)^\\\\015.{51}\\\\014\\\\000\\\\015\\\\000\\\\016"]], [0, b["(?s)^\\\\104\\\\103.\\\\001"]]]],
+    ['image/svg+xml', [[0, b['<!DOCTYPE svg'], [[25..1024, b['<svg']]]]]],
     ['message/x-emlx', [[2..9, b["\nRelay-Version:"]], [2..9, b["\n#! rnews"]], [2..9, b["\nN#! rnews"]], [2..9, b["\nForward to"]], [2..9, b["\nPipe to"]], [2..9, b["\nReturn-Path:"]], [2..9, b["\nFrom:"]], [2..9, b["\nReceived:"]], [2..9, b["\nMessage-ID:"]], [2..9, b["\nDate:"]]]],
+    ['image/svg+xml', [[0, b['<!--'], [[4..1024, b['<svg']]]]]],
     ['application/cbor', [[0, b["\331\331\367"]]]],
     ['application/coreldraw', [[0, b['RIFF'], [[8, b['CDR']], [8, b['cdr']], [8, b['DES']], [8, b['des']]]]]],
     ['application/illustrator+ps', [[0..8192, b["[\\r\\n]%AI5_FileFormat [1-4][\\r\\n]"]]]],
@@ -2615,6 +2618,7 @@ module Marcel
     ['image/heic-sequence', [[4, b['ftyphevc']], [4, b['ftyphevx']]]],
     ['image/heif', [[4, b['ftypmif1']]]],
     ['image/heif-sequence', [[4, b['ftypmsf1']]]],
+    ['image/svg+xml', [[0, b[' <svg']], [0, b["\n<svg"]], [0, b["\r<svg"]], [0, b["\r\n<svg"]], [0, b["\t<svg"]]]],
     ['image/x-canon-cr2', [[0, b["MM\000*"], [[8, b['CR']]]], [0, b["II*\000"], [[8, b['CR']]]], [0, b["MM\000+"], [[8, b['CR']]]]]],
     ['image/x-canon-cr3', [[4, b['ftypcrx ']]]],
     ['message/news', [[0, b['Path:']], [0, b['Xref:']]]],

diff --git a/test/fixtures/magic/audio/mpeg/audio1.mp3 b/test/fixtures/magic/audio/mpeg/audio1.mp3
diff --git a/test/fixtures/name/text/csv/svg.csv b/test/fixtures/name/text/csv/svg.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Name,Age,Occupation
+Marcel Marceau,94,"<svg></svg>"
diff --git a/test/fixtures/name/text/javascript/javascript.js b/test/fixtures/name/text/javascript/javascript.js
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+svg=`<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"/>`;
+
 function() {
   alert("test")
 }
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
		@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
		Name,Age,Occupation
		Marcel Marceau,94,"<svg></svg>"