GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m
## Summary `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` does not correctly reject `javascript:` URIs when the scheme is split by HTML entity-encoded control characters such as ` ` (carriage return), ` ` (line feed), or `	` (tab). ## Details The `allowed_uri?` method strips literal control characters before decoding HTML entities. Payloads like `java script:alert(1)` survive the control character strip, then ` ` is decoded to a carriage return, producing `java\rscript:alert(1)`. Note that the Loofah sanitizer's default `sanitize()` path is **not affected** because Nokogiri decodes HTML entities during parsing before Loofah evaluates the URI protocol. This issue only affects direct callers of the `allowed_uri?` string-level helper when passing HTML-encoded strings. ## Impact Applications that call `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` to validate user-controlled URLs and then render approved URLs into `href` or other browser-interpreted URI attributes may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). This only affects Loofah `2.25.0`. ## Mitigation Upgrade to Loofah >= `2.25.1`. ## Credit Responsibly reported by HackOne user `@smlee`.
Properties
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m
- severity
- low
- summary
- Improper detection of disallowed URIs by Loofah `allowed_uri?`
- cve_id
- GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m
- is_ghsa_only
- true
- ghsa_published
- 2026-03-18T17:26:48Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-03-18T17:26:49Z
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