CVE-2026-66370CWE-601

CVE-2026-66370

Medium · published August 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
33.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 1.4.5 and from 1.5.0-rc.0 before 1.5.3.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00403 · 33.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
Published
2026-08-06T20:16Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
rrrene/htmlsanitizeex≥ 0.3.1, < 1.5.31.5.3
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 AUG 14:49Z
    html_sanitize_ex HTML5 scrubber keeps attacker-supplied form-association attributes, allowing form hijacking
    cvelistv5