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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66370.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6 Patch
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66370 Patch, Third Party Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 4.8 · rrreneNVD modified 2026-10-23 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:rrrene:htmlsanitizeex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66370.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/21394e758cb0ffe12fb9953c30fdedc6016c8f9e
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6 Patch
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-w3f9-jjhw-wwvq Broken Link
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66370 Patch, Third Party Advisory