CVE-2026-66370

MEDIUM

html_sanitize_ex HTML5 scrubber keeps attacker-supplied form-association attributes, allowing form hijacking

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in the HTML5 scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to retarget a form already on the rendering page and receive whatever the victim submits, including credentials, via the form and formaction attributes on an <input> element in sanitized HTML. HTML's form attribute associates an input with any form on the page by its id even when the input sits outside that form, and formaction on a submit control overrides the owning form's action. Neither attribute receives a scheme check, so an absolute cross-origin URL survives sanitizing. No script executes. The scrubber allows neither form nor button, so the attacker cannot introduce a form of their own and the rendering page must already contain a form carrying an id. This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.5.3.

Scores

CVSS v4 4.8
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 29.3%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-601
Status published
Products (2)
rrrene/html_sanitize_ex 0.3.1 - 1.5.3
rrrene/html_sanitize_ex 8976d64ea0b77d26093a94a43ec48a3978e8d028 - a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6
Published Aug 06, 2026
Tracked Since Aug 06, 2026