CVE-2026-66843

LOW CVSS 4.0: 2.3 EPSS 0.50%
Updated Aug 07, 2026
Inclusion
Parameter Value
CVSS 2.3 (LOW)
Affected Versions before 1.5.3.
Type CWE-829 (Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Source)
Vendor Inclusion
Public PoC No

Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere vulnerability in the HTML5 scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows a remote attacker to load a document of their choosing into a trusted page via the data attribute of an <object> element in sanitized HTML. object is the one URI-bearing element in lib/html_sanitize_ex/scrubber/html5.ex never registered through allow_tag_with_uri_attributes/3, and its only guard is a prefix match on lowercase "javascript:", so mixed-case variants, data: URIs, protocol-relative URLs and same-origin paths all survive. This is not unconditional cross-site scripting. A javascript: URL does not execute through <object data> in current browsers, data: documents load in an opaque origin, and host-origin script execution additionally requires the application to serve attacker-controlled content from a same-origin path.

This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.5.3.

Attack Parameters

Attack Vector
Network
Can be exploited remotely
Attack Complexity
Low
Easy to exploit
Attack Requirements
Present
Additional conditions required
Privileges Required
None
No privileges needed
User Interaction
Passive
Minimal interaction

Impact Assessment

Confidentiality
None
No data leak
Integrity
None
No data modification
Availability
None
No disruption

CVSS Vector v4.0