CVE-2026-126203

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.19.5

https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/pull/3741

https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/635abc8d65c75d594ddf8957fbfbfd822c2c0dbd

https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-h6v6-rg66-fqj4

https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/releases/tag/v2.25.3

https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/pull/324

https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/7ba1e7b77e043fb7dc832ef746fcbf83137135e6

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-124615

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-11-12

Updated: 2026-11-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00271