MEDIUMVulnerability

CVE-2026-66843

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 <object> 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 <object data> 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.

Properties

severity
MEDIUM
score
6.1
cve_id
CVE-2026-66843
vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
published_at
2026-08-06T16:16:49.627
last_modified
2026-08-19T12:18:34.807

Related Entities (3)

AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)

[Product]

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

DESCRIBED_BY (1)

[Source]NVD

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