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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-7808 EUVD-2026-64658GHSA-4p64-v8f5-r2gxGHSA-fj35-9vw4-h76v

justhtml before 1.16.0 Multiple Security Issues via Sanitization

Published Aug 23, 2026 · Updated Aug 24, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
EmilStenstrom justhtml < 1.16.0 1.16.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI justhtml < 1.16.0 1.16.0 GHSA-4p64-v8f5-r2gx

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