CVE-2026-66829

MEDIUMNVD 6.16.1—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 6.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-08-06. NVD baseline CVSS 6.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 6.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in the HTML5 scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows a remote attacker to force visitors of a page to navigate to a site of the attacker's choosing via a element in sanitized HTML. HtmlSanitizeEx.html5/1 keeps attacker-supplied elements in its output. A meta element acts on the whole document rather than on the fragment it was embedded in, so it can also declare document-wide directives such as Content-Security-Policy.

This is not cross-site scripting. Browsers do not navigate a meta refresh to a javascript: URL, so the uppercase JAVASCRIPT: filter bypass yields no script execution and none was demonstrated.

This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.4.5 and from 1.5.0-rc.0 before 1.5.3.

CVSS v3
6.1
EG Score
6.1MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
28
EG Risk 28/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity61% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
45th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 6, 2026

Last Modified

August 19, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Aug 11, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit.
generic

OSV - Open Source Vulnerabilities

https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66829
github_commit

commit 9f7e38be51ed (rrrene/html_sanitize_ex)

Fix landed in rrrene/html_sanitize_ex commit 9f7e38be51ed — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/9f7e38be51edc38f132dfe994f37af5cf5e0e76f

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-66829(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Hex(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
html_sanitize_ex0.3.1 ... 1.5.2 (21 versions)
  • 0.3.1 up to 1.4.5: fixed in 1.4.5
  • 1.5.0-rc.0 up to 1.5.3: fixed in 1.5.3
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-66829?
CVE-2026-66829 is a medium vulnerability published on August 6, 2026. URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in the HTML5 scrubber in rrrene htmlsanitizeex allows a remote attacker to force visitors of a page to navigate to a site of the attacker's choosing via a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> element in sanitized HTML. HtmlSanitizeEx.html5/1…
When was CVE-2026-66829 disclosed?
CVE-2026-66829 was first published on August 6, 2026, with the most recent update on August 19, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-66829 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-66829 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (45th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-66829?
CVE-2026-66829 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-66829?
A fix for CVE-2026-66829 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-66829 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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