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Low · 2.3 CVE-2026-66843 EEF-CVE-2026-66843EUVD-2026-54080GHSA-6g7x-33rf-28v3GHSA-xmm9-jc22-rcgj

html_sanitize_ex HTML5 scrubber keeps attacker-supplied `<object>` elements, allowing untrusted content embedding

Published Aug 6, 2026 · Updated Aug 19, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

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 1.4.5 and from 1.5.0-rc.0 before 1.5.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rrrene html_sanitize_ex 0.3.1 – < 1.4.5, 1.5.0-rc.0 – < 1.5.3 1.4.5

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex html_sanitize_ex >= 0.3.1, < 1.4.5 · >= 1.5.0-rc.0, < 1.5.3 1.4.5, 1.5.3 EEF-CVE-2026-66843

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