CVE-2026-66370

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:rrrene:htmlsanitizeex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

11 Aug 2026, 13:53

Type Values Removed Values Added
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 6.1
First Time Rrrene
Rrrene htmlsanitizeex
References () https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66370.html - () https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66370.html - Patch, Third Party Advisory
References () https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6 - () https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6 - Patch
References () https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-w3f9-jjhw-wwvq - () https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-w3f9-jjhw-wwvq - Broken Link
References () https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66370 - () 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


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Products Affected

rrrene

  • htmlsanitizeex
CWE
CWE-601

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')