๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-7808

CRITICAL 9.8

justhtml before 1.16.0 Multiple Security Issues via Sanitization

CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

justhtml before 1.16.0 contains multiple HTML sanitization bypass issues that can allow active/dangerous content (e.g., script or style) to survive sanitization, potentially leading to cross-site scripting. The issues primarily affect advanced usage rather than the default JustHTML(..., sanitize=True) path for ordinary parsed HTML: mutating or reusing sanitization policy objects (including exported defaults) could weaken later sanitization; programmatic DOM input to sanitize()/sanitize_dom() could miss mixed-case tag names (e.g., ScRiPt, StYlE); crafted programmatic doctype names could serialize into active markup; and custom policies preserving SVG or MathML could allow animation elements, presentation attributes with external url(...) references, or DOM trees mislabeled as namespace="html" to bypass foreign-content checks. Fixed in 1.16.0.

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 < 1.16.0

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/security/advisories/GHSA-4p64-v8f5-r2gx vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/justhtml-before-multiple-security-issues-via-sanitization

Credits

EmilStenstrom