Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. In 2.25.2, Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri? treats a data URI mediatype containing the HTML5 named solidus reference / as malformed and falls back to the allowed text/plain, while a browser decodes the reference and interprets the same value as text/html. An application that validates a user-controlled URL with this helper and renders the approved value in href or another browser-interpreted URI attribute can allow cross-site scripting. Rails::HTML::Sanitizer.allowed_uri? re-exports the affected helper. Loofah's default sanitize() path is not affected because Nokogiri decodes the entity before URI validation. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3.
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GHSA-jcff-cj73-4w4f | Loofah allowed_uri? treats data:text/html as safe text/plain |
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Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:30:00 +0000
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Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:00:00 +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. In 2.25.2, Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri? treats a data URI mediatype containing the HTML5 named solidus reference / as malformed and falls back to the allowed text/plain, while a browser decodes the reference and interprets the same value as text/html. An application that validates a user-controlled URL with this helper and renders the approved value in href or another browser-interpreted URI attribute can allow cross-site scripting. Rails::HTML::Sanitizer.allowed_uri? re-exports the affected helper. Loofah's default sanitize() path is not affected because Nokogiri decodes the entity before URI validation. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3. | |
| Title | Loofah allowed_uri? treats data:text/html as safe text/plain | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-184 CWE-79 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-12T20:51:36.537Z
Reserved: 2026-11-10T20:07:44.958Z
Link: CVE-2026-126206
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-11-12T21:17:21.670
Modified: 2026-11-12T22:09:39.233
Link: CVE-2026-126206
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