CVE-2026-126209
Loofah allowed_uri? treats javascript: alert(1) as safe
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.
| CWE | CWE-79 CWE-184 |
| Vendor | flavorjones |
| Product | loofah |
| Published | Nov 12, 2026 |
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