# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-66829"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-06T14:49:23.468Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T11:50:39.885Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-66829"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-66829.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-66829"
title: "html_sanitize_ex HTML5 scrubber keeps attacker-supplied meta refresh, allowing forced cross-origin redirection"
summary: "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 \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"refresh\"\u003e element in sanitized HTML. HtmlSanitizeEx.html5/1 keeps attacker-supplied \u003cmeta\u003e 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nThis issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.4.5 and from 1.5.0-rc.0 before 1.5.3."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0.3.1","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.4.5"},{"version":"1.5.0-rc.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.5.3"}],"vendor":"rrrene","product":"html_sanitize_ex","packageName":"html_sanitize_ex","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"8976d64ea0b77d26093a94a43ec48a3978e8d028","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"*","changes":[{"at":"9f7e38be51edc38f132dfe994f37af5cf5e0e76f","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"29454dc99513fd9b5b6429ab7b6695ad09889227","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"rrrene","product":"html_sanitize_ex","packageName":"rrrene/html_sanitize_ex","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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