URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in the HTML5 scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to retarget a form already on the rendering page and receive whatever the victim submits, including credentials, via the form and formaction attributes on an <input> element in sanitized HTML. HTML's form attribute associates an input with any form on the page by its id even when the input sits outside that form, and formaction on a submit control overrides the owning form's action. Neither attribute receives a scheme check, so an absolute cross-origin URL survives sanitizing.
No script executes. The scrubber allows neither form nor button, so the attacker cannot introduce a form of their own and the rendering page must already contain a form carrying an id.
This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.5.3.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66370.html | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6 | Patch |
| https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-w3f9-jjhw-wwvq | Broken Link |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66370 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
11 Aug 2026, 13:53
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 6.1 |
| First Time |
Rrrene
Rrrene htmlsanitizeex |
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| References | () https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66370.html - Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-w3f9-jjhw-wwvq - Broken Link | |
| References | () https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66370 - Patch, Third Party Advisory | |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:rrrene:htmlsanitizeex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
06 Aug 2026, 16:16
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2026-08-06 16:16
Updated : 2026-08-11 13:53
NVD link : CVE-2026-66370
Mitre link : CVE-2026-66370
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-66370
JSON object : View
Products Affected
rrrene
- htmlsanitizeex
CWE
CWE-601
URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
