Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri.
CVE-2026-126203
Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. From 2.21.0 until 2.25.3, Loofah's HTML5 APIs Loofah.html5fragment, Loofah.html5document, and the scrubhtml5 methods can emit sanitized output that a browser reparses as different markup when used with Nokogiri before 1.19.5, because those Nokogiri versions do not escape angle brackets in attribute values. MathML can place markup inside an allowed attribute so the reparsed output becomes live HTML. The :strip scrubber is affected in every browser, while :prune and :escape are affected in WebKit browsers. Loofah's HTML4 APIs, Loofah::Helpers.sanitize, :whitewash, rails-html-sanitizer's default configuration, and JRuby are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 2.25.3.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.1 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 12 November 2026
- Last updated
- 12 November 2026
- Affected
- flavorjones · loofah
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-h6v6-rg66-fqj4
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/pull/324
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/pull/3741
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/commit/7ba1e7b77e043fb7dc832ef746fcbf83137135e6
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/635abc8d65c75d594ddf8957fbfbfd822c2c0dbd
- https://github.com/flavorjones/loofah/releases/tag/v2.25.3
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.19.5
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