{"id":"GHSA-2j22-pr5w-6gq8","aliases":[],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/GHSA-2j22-pr5w-6gq8","summary":"Loofah has improper detection of disallowed URIs via `allowed_uri?`","details":"## Summary\n\n`Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` does not correctly reject `javascript:` URIs when the scheme is split by HTML entity-encoded control characters such as `
` (carriage return), `
` (line feed), or `	` (tab).\n\n## Details\n\nThe `allowed_uri?` method strips literal control characters before decoding HTML entities. Payloads like `java
script:alert(1)` survive the control character strip, then `
` is decoded to a carriage return, producing `java\\rscript:alert(1)`.\n\nNote that the Loofah sanitizer's default `sanitize()` path is **not affected** because Nokogiri decodes HTML entities during parsing before Loofah evaluates the URI protocol. This issue only affects direct callers of the `allowed_uri?` string-level helper when passing HTML-encoded strings.\n\n## Impact\n\nApplications that call `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` to validate user-controlled URLs and then render approved URLs into `href` or other browser-interpreted URI attributes may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).\n\nThis only affects Loofah `2.25.0`.\n\n## Mitigation\n\nUpgrade to Loofah >= `2.25.1`.\n\n## Credit\n\nResponsibly reported by HackOne user @smlee.","published":"2026-03-26T22:19:02Z","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:36.423427224Z","cvss":null,"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","name":"loofah","fixedVersion":"2.25.1"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/f4ebc9c5193dde759a57541062e490e86fc7c068","label":"flavorjones/loofah@f4ebc9c"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/f4ebc9c5193dde759a57541062e490e86fc7c068"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/releases/tag/v2.25.1"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-09-10T03:50:36.423427224Z"}}