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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-126203 EUVD-2026-124615GHSA-h6v6-rg66-fqj4

Loofah: Mutation XSS in the HTML5 scrubbers through unescaped attribute values

Published Nov 12, 2026 · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. From 2.21.0 until 2.25.3, Loofah's HTML5 APIs Loofah.html5_fragment, Loofah.html5_document, and the scrub_html5_* methods can emit sanitized output that a browser reparses as different markup when used with Nokogiri before 1.19.5, because those Nokogiri versions do not escape angle brackets in attribute values. MathML can place markup inside an allowed attribute so the reparsed output becomes live HTML. The :strip scrubber is affected in every browser, while :prune and :escape are affected in WebKit browsers. Loofah's HTML4 APIs, Loofah::Helpers.sanitize, :whitewash, rails-html-sanitizer's default configuration, and JRuby are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
flavorjones loofah >= 2.21.0, < 2.25.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 ruby-loofah No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ruby-loofah No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ruby-loofah No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ruby-loofah No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ruby-loofah No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ruby-loofah No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ruby-loofah No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems loofah >= 2.21.0, < 2.25.3 2.25.3 GHSA-h6v6-rg66-fqj4

References