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CVE-2026-49825: `lxml_html_clean.Cleaner` does not strip `javascript:` URLs from namespaced URL attributes

July 8, 2026

Cleaner filters URL schemes (javascript:, vbscript:, …) by walking links via rewrite_links(), which delegates to iterlinks(), which only yields attributes named in lxml.html.defs.link_attrs. That allow-list contains no prefixed names (xlink:href) and no srcset. As a result, when Cleaner is configured with safe_attrs_only=False — a documented option for callers that want lenient attribute handling but still expect URL-scheme scrubbing — <a xlink:href="javascript:…"> survives sanitization untouched, and any browser that follows the SVG-anchor specification will execute the JavaScript when the rendered link is clicked.

CWE: CWE-79 (XSS), with CWE-184 (Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs) as the underlying defect class.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-4jhm-jv67-739f
  • github.com/fedora-python/lxml_html_clean/security/advisories/GHSA-4jhm-jv67-739f
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49825

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.4.5

Fixed versions

  • 0.4.5

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.4.5 or above.

Impact 8.2 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-184: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

pypi/lxml-html-clean/CVE-2026-49825.yml

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