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CVE-2026-126208
Published:November 12, 2026
Updated:November 13, 2026
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Prior to 2.25.3, Loofah's SVG_ALLOW_LOCAL_HREF safelist lists textPath with lowercase spelling that does not match the HTML5 parser's element name and omits mpath, so external href and xlink:href values on those elements survive sanitization. Firefox fetches the attacker-chosen URL when a viewer renders the content, which can disclose the viewer's IP address, user agent, referrer, and access to hosts routable only from the viewer's network. Chrome and WebKit do not fetch these references, and the impact is a network request rather than script execution. The rails-html-sanitizer PermitScrubber reuses the affected safelist when SVG elements are permitted. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.2.0 <v2.25.3 || >=v1.0.0.beta.1 <v2.25.3 || >=v2.0.0 <v2.25.3
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v2.25.3
loofah (RUBY):
Affected version(s) >=1.0.0.beta.1 <2.25.3 || >=2.0.0 <2.25.3 || >=0.2.0 <2.25.3
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.25.3
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
LOW
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
4.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs