Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Sep 8, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2014-125128

Description

'sanitize-html' prior to version 1.0.3 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The function 'naughtyHref' doesn't properly validate the hyperreference (href) attribute in anchor tags (``), allowing bypasses that contain different casings, whitespace characters, or hexadecimal encodings.

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Affected products

Lumiverse/Sanitize HTMLinferred
Range: <1.0.3
Package: https://npmjs.com/package/sanitize-html
Apostrophecms/Sanitize HTMLllm-fuzzy
Range: <1.0.3

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/423b90e06e1e85245eccedaabeb3a82840c6cd86nvdPatch
github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/889d4ec968e175f1905b2eb9d33f1fa89217cb02nvdPatch
github.com/Checkmarx/Vulnerabilities-Proofs-of-Concept/tree/main/2014/CVE-2014-125128nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/issues/1nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

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