Description
URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in the HTML5 scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows a remote attacker to force visitors of a page to navigate to a site of the attacker's choosing via a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> element in sanitized HTML. HtmlSanitizeEx.html5/1 keeps attacker-supplied <meta> elements in its output. A meta element acts on the whole document rather than on the fragment it was embedded in, so it can also declare document-wide directives such as Content-Security-Policy. This is not cross-site scripting. Browsers do not navigate a meta refresh to a javascript: URL, so the uppercase JAVASCRIPT: filter bypass yields no script execution and none was demonstrated. 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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
rrrene html_sanitize_ex
Default version status: unaffected
0.3.1 to < 1.4.5affected1.5.0-rc.0 to < 1.5.3affected
pkg:hex/html_sanitize_exrrrene html_sanitize_ex
Default version status: unaffected
8976d64ea0b77d26093a94a43ec48a3978e8d028 to < *affected
pkg:github/rrrene/html_sanitize_exReferences
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-2c6f-3j54-xpcr ↗
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66829.html ↗
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66829 ↗
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/9f7e38be51edc38f132dfe994f37af5cf5e0e76f ↗
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/29454dc99513fd9b5b6429ab7b6695ad09889227 ↗