Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. From 2.25.0 until 2.25.3, Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri? strips whitespace and control characters before decoding a semicolon-less numeric character reference, changing where the reference ends and hiding a javascript: or vbscript: scheme that a browser reconstructs. The bypass applies to encoded colons and encoded scheme letters when a stripped character terminates the numeric reference. An application that renders the approved value in href or another browser-interpreted URI attribute can allow cross-site scripting, and Rails::HTML::Sanitizer.allowed_uri? re-exports the affected helper. Loofah's default sanitize() path is not affected because Nokogiri decodes entities before URI evaluation. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3.
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GHSA-p9wj-w8xq-vjx6 | Loofah allowed_uri? treats javascript: alert(1) as safe |
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Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:15:00 +0000
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| Description | Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. From 2.25.0 until 2.25.3, Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri? strips whitespace and control characters before decoding a semicolon-less numeric character reference, changing where the reference ends and hiding a javascript: or vbscript: scheme that a browser reconstructs. The bypass applies to encoded colons and encoded scheme letters when a stripped character terminates the numeric reference. An application that renders the approved value in href or another browser-interpreted URI attribute can allow cross-site scripting, and Rails::HTML::Sanitizer.allowed_uri? re-exports the affected helper. Loofah's default sanitize() path is not affected because Nokogiri decodes entities before URI evaluation. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3. | |
| Title | Loofah allowed_uri? treats javascript: alert(1) as safe | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-184 CWE-79 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-12T21:01:58.128Z
Reserved: 2026-11-10T20:07:44.958Z
Link: CVE-2026-126209
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-11-12T21:17:22.210
Modified: 2026-11-12T22:09:39.233
Link: CVE-2026-126209
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