๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-5388

CRITICAL 9.8

justhtml before 1.15.0 Multiple Security Issues

CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

justhtml before 1.15.0 contains multiple security issues in URL sanitization helpers (clean_url_value/clean_url_in_js_string), HTML serialization, Markdown passthrough (html_passthrough=True), and several custom sanitization-policy edge cases. Depending on configuration, an attacker can bypass sanitization to inject active HTML and JavaScript โ€” for example via encoded javascript: URLs, backslash-based relative URLs resolved as remote hosts, markup-breaking programmatic element/attribute names or HTML comments, raw </textarea> reintroduction through Markdown passthrough, or preserved <style>/<meta http-equiv=refresh>/<base href> tags in custom policies. Most custom-policy issues do not affect the default sanitize=True configuration; they primarily affect helper APIs, programmatic DOM construction, html_passthrough=True, and custom policies/transform pipelines.

CWE CWE-20
Vendor emilstenstrom
Product justhtml
Published Aug 23, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

EmilStenstrom / justhtml
0 < 1.15.0

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/security/advisories/GHSA-c9vm-hv86-f23r vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/justhtml-before-multiple-security-issues

Credits

EmilStenstrom