---
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: 0.2517
---

## Overview

### Description

`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.

`<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.

Default 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.

### Resolution

`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.

The 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).

### Credits

Symfony would like to thank Scott Arciszewski (Trail of Bits) for reporting the issue and Nicolas Grekas for providing the fix.

## Affected packages

- `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`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `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`
