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Vulnerability	Summary	Fixed by
VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 Aliases: GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m	Improper detection of disallowed URIs by Loofah `allowed_uri?` ## Summary `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` does not correctly reject `javascript:` URIs when the scheme is split by HTML entity-encoded control characters such as ` ` (carriage return), ` ` (line feed), or ` ` (tab). ## Details The `allowed_uri?` method strips literal control characters before decoding HTML entities. Payloads like `java script:alert(1)` survive the control character strip, then ` ` is decoded to a carriage return, producing `java\rscript:alert(1)`. Note that the Loofah sanitizer's default `sanitize()` path is not affected because Nokogiri decodes HTML entities during parsing before Loofah evaluates the URI protocol. This issue only affects direct callers of the `allowed_uri?` string-level helper when passing HTML-encoded strings. ## Impact Applications that call `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` to validate user-controlled URLs and then render approved URLs into `href` or other browser-interpreted URI attributes may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). This only affects Loofah `2.25.0`. ## Mitigation Upgrade to Loofah >= `2.25.1`. ## Credit Responsibly reported by HackOne user `@smlee`.	2.25.1 Affected by 1 other vulnerability. This version is affected by these other vulnerabilities: {{ fixed_by_vuln.vulnerability_id }}

Vulnerability

Summary

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VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7
Aliases:
GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m

Improper detection of disallowed URIs by Loofah `allowed_uri?` ## Summary `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` does not correctly reject `javascript:` URIs when the scheme is split by HTML entity-encoded control characters such as `` (carriage return), `
` (line feed), or `	` (tab). ## Details The `allowed_uri?` method strips literal control characters before decoding HTML entities. Payloads like `javascript:alert(1)` survive the control character strip, then `` is decoded to a carriage return, producing `java\rscript:alert(1)`. Note that the Loofah sanitizer's default `sanitize()` path is **not affected** because Nokogiri decodes HTML entities during parsing before Loofah evaluates the URI protocol. This issue only affects direct callers of the `allowed_uri?` string-level helper when passing HTML-encoded strings. ## Impact Applications that call `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` to validate user-controlled URLs and then render approved URLs into `href` or other browser-interpreted URI attributes may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). This only affects Loofah `2.25.0`. ## Mitigation Upgrade to Loofah >= `2.25.1`. ## Credit Responsibly reported by HackOne user `@smlee`.

2.25.1
Affected by 1 other vulnerability.

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Date	Actor	Action	Vulnerability	Source	VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-16T17:41:47.574345+00:00	Ruby Importer	Affected by	VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7	https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml	38.4.0
2026-04-11T21:39:55.384009+00:00	Ruby Importer	Affected by	VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7	https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml	38.3.0
2026-04-02T19:37:13.517102+00:00	Ruby Importer	Affected by	VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7	https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml	38.1.0
2026-04-01T15:55:04.554209+00:00	Ruby Importer	Affected by	VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7	https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml	38.0.0