CVE-2026-66843
Description
Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere vulnerability in the HTML5 scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows a remote attacker to load a document of their choosing into a trusted page via the data attribute of an element in sanitized HTML. object is the one URI-bearing element in lib/html_sanitize_ex/scrubber/html5.ex never registered through allow_tag_with_uri_attributes/3, and its only guard is a prefix match on lowercase "javascript:", so mixed-case variants, data: URIs, protocol-relative URLs and same-origin paths all survive.
This is not unconditional cross-site scripting. A javascript: URL does not execute through in current browsers, data: documents load in an opaque origin, and host-origin script execution additionally requires the application to serve attacker-controlled content from a same-origin path.
This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.4.5 and from 1.5.0-rc.0 before 1.5.3.
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Affected products
2cpe:2.3:a:rrrene:htmlsanitizeex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:rrrene:htmlsanitizeex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=0.3.1,<1.5.3
- (no CPE)range: from 0.3.1 before 1.4.5 and from 1.5.0-rc.0 before 1.5.3
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References
5- cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66843.htmlnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/bec27fec4de99e40c68c4285a610e09e791a3eafnvdPatch
- osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66843nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-xmm9-jc22-rcgjnvdBroken Link
- github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/ce038aa1af5a960d50f8eb5d368cc57bb2b9a9f0nvd
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