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.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Flavorjones Subscribe
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9wjq-cp2p-hrgf Loofah: SVG `href` attribute bypasses local-reference restriction
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Flavorjones
Flavorjones loofah
Vendors & Products Flavorjones
Flavorjones loofah

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-12T20:58:12.219Z

Reserved: 2026-08-12T19:00:33.735Z

Link: CVE-2026-73490

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-12T21:17:42.127

Modified: 2026-08-12T21:17:42.127

Link: CVE-2026-73490

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T09:47:45Z

Weaknesses