CVE-2026-5388: critical vulnerability in EmilStenstrom justhtml
justhtml before 1.15.0 Multiple Security Issues
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.3epss 0.6%
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.
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
Affected products
EmilStenstrom · justhtmlRelated CVEs — EmilStenstrom justhtml
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CVE-2026-4671HIGHjusthtml before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via CSS SelectorEPSS 0.7%CVE-2026-8445CRITICALjusthtml before 1.12.0 Sanitizer Bypass via MarkdownEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-7808CRITICALjusthtml before 1.16.0 Multiple Security Issues via SanitizationEPSS 0.6%CVE-2026-9769HIGHjusthtml before 1.10.0 Denial of Service via deeply nested HTMLEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-8630MEDIUMjusthtml before 1.12.0 Mutation XSS via Raw Text ElementsEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-77088MEDIUMjusthtml 0.9.0 through 1.21.0 Cross-Site Scripting via code-spanEPSS 0.3%