CVE-2026-73648rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.55%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. From 1.0.3 until 1.7.1, Rails::HTML::PermitScrubber restricted SVG reference elements in SVG_ALLOW_LOCAL_HREF only when they used xlink:href, even though browsers also accept the plain href attribute. Applications with non-default allowed tags that included SVG use or feImage elements could therefore permit external references; a same-origin external SVG referenced by use could execute scripts in the sanitized document's context, while feImage could load external images for tracking. Applications using the default allowed tags are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 4.0 | Medium5.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/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 |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.55% · top 54% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
- affected >= 1.0.3, < 1.7.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrails-html-sanitizerGHSA-cj75-f6xr-r4g7 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-cj75-f6xr-r4g7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/pull/223 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/74dcb8053e6da9921246ce71b06ad9fd65b19586 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/releases/tag/v1.7.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-58191 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-cj75-f6xr-r4g7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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