CVE-2026-7808 PUBLISHED

justhtml before 1.16.0 Multiple Security Issues via Sanitization

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 04.05.2026 Published: 23.08.2026 Updated: 23.08.2026

justhtml before 1.16.0 contains multiple HTML sanitization bypass issues that can allow active/dangerous content (e.g., script or style) to survive sanitization, potentially leading to cross-site scripting. The issues primarily affect advanced usage rather than the default JustHTML(..., sanitize=True) path for ordinary parsed HTML: mutating or reusing sanitization policy objects (including exported defaults) could weaken later sanitization; programmatic DOM input to sanitize()/sanitize_dom() could miss mixed-case tag names (e.g., ScRiPt, StYlE); crafted programmatic doctype names could serialize into active markup; and custom policies preserving SVG or MathML could allow animation elements, presentation attributes with external url(...) references, or DOM trees mislabeled as namespace="html" to bypass foreign-content checks. Fixed in 1.16.0.

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 1.16.0 (excl.)
  • Version 1.16.0 is unaffected

Credits

  • EmilStenstrom coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Input Validation CWE