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.
Published: 2026-11-12
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-jcff-cj73-4w4f Loofah allowed_uri? treats data:text&sol;html as safe text/plain
History

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:15:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

threat_severity

Moderate


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 &sol; 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&sol;html as safe text/plain
Weaknesses CWE-184
CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N'}


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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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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-11-12T20:51:36Z

Links: CVE-2026-126206 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-11-13T15:30:03Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-184

    Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

  • CWE-79

    Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')