Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Prior to 2.25.2, Loofah's HTML5 sanitizer applies its local-reference restriction only to the xlink:href attribute on SVG use and feImage elements, while browsers also accept the plain href attribute. A crafted sanitized SVG can therefore reference an arbitrary same-origin external document; use may render external SVG content containing scripts or other dangerous content, and feImage may load external images for tracking. Applications that sanitize user-supplied SVG with Loofah's default allowlist are affected. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.2.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-9wjq-cp2p-hrgf | Loofah: SVG `href` attribute bypasses local-reference restriction |
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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:15:00 +0000
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| Description | Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Prior to 2.25.2, Loofah's HTML5 sanitizer applies its local-reference restriction only to the xlink:href attribute on SVG use and feImage elements, while browsers also accept the plain href attribute. A crafted sanitized SVG can therefore reference an arbitrary same-origin external document; use may render external SVG content containing scripts or other dangerous content, and feImage may load external images for tracking. Applications that sanitize user-supplied SVG with Loofah's default allowlist are affected. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.2. | |
| Title | Loofah: SVG `href` attribute bypasses local-reference restriction | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-12T20:58:12.219Z
Reserved: 2026-08-12T19:00:33.735Z
Link: CVE-2026-73490
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-12T21:17:42.127
Modified: 2026-08-12T21:17:42.127
Link: CVE-2026-73490
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-13T09:47:45Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA