Element boundaries are resolved before the scrubber runs, so injected content does not escape the <style> element and no script executes.
This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.5.4.
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Vendor Workaround
Sanitize with basic_html/1, markdown_html/1 or strip_tags/1, none of which allow <style> elements, or define a custom scrubber that omits it. A Content-Security-Policy style-src directive that permits no external stylesheet origins stops an injected @import from loading, though injected inline rules still apply.
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| Description | Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') vulnerability in the CSS scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject CSS at-rules, including an import of a remote stylesheet, into a page served to other users. HtmlSanitizeEx.Scrubber.CSS.scrub/1 applies its property and value allowlist through a Regex.replace over substrings matching a property: value declaration pattern, so input that does not match that pattern is never inspected and is copied to the output unchanged. @import url(//attacker.example/style.css); survives, while the same URL inside a background: url(...) declaration is removed. Element boundaries are resolved before the scrubber runs, so injected content does not escape the <style> element and no script executes. This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.5.4. | |
| Title | CSS sanitizer allowlist bypass in html_sanitize_ex via non-declaration input | |
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Rrrene
Rrrene html Sanitize Ex |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-74 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:rrrene:html_sanitize_ex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Rrrene
Rrrene html Sanitize Ex |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-06T15:08:58.171Z
Reserved: 2026-07-31T13:23:00.355Z
Link: CVE-2026-68747
Updated: 2026-08-06T15:43:34.159Z
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CWE-74
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')