CVE-2026-126206: Loofah allowed_uri? treats data:text/html as safe text/plain
flavorjones · loofah
Affected: flavorjones loofah · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 36% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. In 2.25.2, Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri? treats a data URI mediatype containing the HTML5 named solidus reference / as malformed and falls back to the allowed text/plain, while a browser decodes the reference and interprets the same value as text/html. An application that validates a user-controlled URL with this helper and renders the approved value in href or another browser-interpreted URI attribute can allow cross-site scripting. Rails::HTML::Sanitizer.allowed_uri? re-exports the affected helper. Loofah's default sanitize() path is not affected because Nokogiri decodes the entity before URI validation. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- flavorjones · loofah= 2.25.2
On the Atlas
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Weakness
- Cross-site Scripting
- Vendor
- flavorjones
- Published
- November 2026
CoverageNo articles yet
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References
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CVE recordcve.org
- Weakness CWE-79cwe.mitre.org
- github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-jcff-cj73github.com
- github.com/flavorjones/loofah/pull/324github.com
- github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/ad92002966053309f83b550861egithub.com
- github.com/flavorjones/loofah/releases/tag/v2.25.3github.com