CVE-2026-5388 PUBLISHED

justhtml before 1.15.0 Multiple Security Issues

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 01.04.2026 Published: 23.08.2026 Updated: 23.08.2026

justhtml before 1.15.0 contains multiple security issues in URL sanitization helpers (clean_url_value/clean_url_in_js_string), HTML serialization, Markdown passthrough (html_passthrough=True), and several custom sanitization-policy edge cases. Depending on configuration, an attacker can bypass sanitization to inject active HTML and JavaScript — for example via encoded javascript: URLs, backslash-based relative URLs resolved as remote hosts, markup-breaking programmatic element/attribute names or HTML comments, raw </textarea> reintroduction through Markdown passthrough, or preserved <style>/<meta http-equiv=refresh>/<base href> tags in custom policies. Most custom-policy issues do not affect the default sanitize=True configuration; they primarily affect helper APIs, programmatic DOM construction, html_passthrough=True, and custom policies/transform pipelines.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor EmilStenstrom
Product justhtml
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.15.0 (excl.)
  • Version 1.15.0 is unaffected

Credits

  • EmilStenstrom coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Input Validation CWE