CVE-2026-66370
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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in, but needs a user to act. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.4% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 4.8 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-601
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Rrrene Htmlsanitizeex < 1.5.3
Attack profile CVSS 4.0 · 4.8
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Active
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
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
Is it in your code?
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Fix and advisories
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66370.html
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/21394e758cb0ffe12fb9953c30fdedc6016c8f9e
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-w3f9-jjhw-wwvq
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66370
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66370.html
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/21394e758cb0ffe12fb9953c30fdedc6016c8f9e
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/a1e804ed997e780ea71d14393cf2f701330553a6
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-w3f9-jjhw-wwvq
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66370