{"id":"CVE-2026-48761","aliases":["GHSA-x5qj-865h-mgvm"],"title":"Symfony: HtmlSanitizer UrlAttributeSanitizer Misses URL Attributes","summary":"Symfony: HtmlSanitizer UrlAttributeSanitizer Misses URL Attributes","severity":"medium","cwe":["CWE-79","CWE-1023"],"vendor":"symfony","product":"symfony/html-sanitizer","ecosystem":"composer","affected":["symfony/html-sanitizer >= 6.1.0, < 6.4.41","symfony/html-sanitizer >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.13","symfony/html-sanitizer >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.13","symfony/symfony >= 6.1.0, < 6.4.41","symfony/symfony >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.13","symfony/symfony >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.13"],"patched":["symfony/html-sanitizer 6.4.41","symfony/html-sanitizer 7.4.13","symfony/html-sanitizer 8.0.13","symfony/symfony 6.4.41","symfony/symfony 7.4.13","symfony/symfony 8.0.13"],"published":"2026-06-15","updated":"2026-06-15","source":"GHSA","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x5qj-865h-mgvm","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/symfony/symfony/security/advisories/GHSA-x5qj-865h-mgvm"},{"url":"https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/069a70f9f26e61e9de3b7f9a864a86ed24b36bd0"},{"url":"https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/html-sanitizer/CVE-2026-48761.yaml"},{"url":"https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/symfony/CVE-2026-48761.yaml"},{"url":"https://symfony.com/cve-2026-48761"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x5qj-865h-mgvm"}],"tags":["ghsa","composer"],"ingestedAt":"2026-07-07T15:41:58.955Z","epss":0.00345,"epssPercentile":0.28086,"slug":"CVE-2026-48761","body":"## Overview\n\n### Description\n\n`Symfony\\Component\\HtmlSanitizer\\Visitor\\AttributeSanitizer\\UrlAttributeSanitizer::getSupportedAttributes()` enumerates the attribute names whose values are scrubbed through `UrlSanitizer::sanitize()` (scheme and host allow-lists, `javascript:` rejection, BiDi check, etc.). The list is `['src', 'href', 'lowsrc', 'background', 'ping', 'action', 'formaction', 'poster', 'cite']`. Other URL-bearing attributes are absent: `<object data=…>`, `<applet codebase=…>`, `<applet archive=…>` and `<object archive=…>`, `<iframe longdesc=…>` and `<img longdesc=…>`. When an integrator opts these elements/attributes in via `allowElement('object', ['data'])`, `allowElement('applet', ['codebase'])`, etc., or via `allowAttribute()`, no URL sanitization runs: `data=\"javascript:alert(1)\"` and similar payloads ship through unchanged into the output, enabling stored XSS.\n\n`<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=…\">` is the same class of bug routed differently: the URL is embedded inside a multi-field `content` attribute that the per-attribute sanitizer cannot detect from the attribute name alone. Integrators who enable `<meta>` with the `content` attribute (e.g. via `allowStaticElements()`) see `content=\"0; url=javascript:alert(1)\"` pass through, producing a refresh-driven navigation to a `javascript:` URL.\n\nDefault configurations are not affected: `<object>`, `<applet>` and `<iframe>` are not in `W3CReference::BODY_ELEMENTS` and `<meta>` requires an explicit opt-in to `<head>` context. The vulnerability surface is integrators who explicitly allow any of those elements together with the listed URL-bearing attributes.\n\n### Resolution\n\n`UrlAttributeSanitizer` now also routes `data`, `codebase`, `archive` and `longdesc` through `UrlSanitizer::sanitize()`. A new `MetaRefreshAttributeSanitizer` registered as a default attribute sanitizer detects the `<delay>; url=<url>` syntax inside `<meta content>`, sanitizes the embedded URL, and drops the attribute if the URL is rejected; non-refresh meta `content` values are passed through unchanged.\n\nThe patches for this issue are available [here](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/069a70f9f26e61e9de3b7f9a864a86ed24b36bd0) for branch 6.4 (and forward-ported to 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1).\n\n### Credits\n\nSymfony would like to thank Scott Arciszewski (Trail of Bits) for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for providing the fix.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `symfony/html-sanitizer >= 6.1.0, < 6.4.41`\n- `symfony/html-sanitizer >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.13`\n- `symfony/html-sanitizer >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.13`\n- `symfony/symfony >= 6.1.0, < 6.4.41`\n- `symfony/symfony >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.13`\n- `symfony/symfony >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.13`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `symfony/html-sanitizer 6.4.41`\n- `symfony/html-sanitizer 7.4.13`\n- `symfony/html-sanitizer 8.0.13`\n- `symfony/symfony 6.4.41`\n- `symfony/symfony 7.4.13`\n- `symfony/symfony 8.0.13`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":28,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":27.5,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}