---
id: CVE-2026-7808
aliases:
  - GHSA-4p64-v8f5-r2gx
title: Multiple security fixes in justhtml
summary: Multiple security fixes in justhtml
severity: low
vendor: justhtml
product: justhtml
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - justhtml < 1.16.0
patched:
  - justhtml 1.16.0
published: '2026-04-14'
updated: '2026-08-24'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-4p64-v8f5-r2gx'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/security/advisories/GHSA-4p64-v8f5-r2gx
  - url: 'https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.00352
epssPercentile: 0.2896
ingestedAt: '2026-08-24T19:25:44.052Z'
---

## Overview

## Summary

`justhtml` `1.16.0` fixes multiple security issues in sanitization, serialization, and programmatic DOM handling.

Most of these issues affected one of these advanced paths rather than ordinary parsed HTML with the default safe settings:

- programmatic DOM input to `sanitize()` or `sanitize_dom()`
- reused or mutated sanitization policy objects
- custom policies that preserve foreign namespaces such as SVG or MathML

## Affected versions

- `justhtml` `<= 1.15.0`

## Fixed version

- `justhtml` `1.16.0` released on April 12, 2026

## Impact

### Policy reuse and mutation
Nested mutation of sanitization policy internals could weaken later sanitization by leaving stale compiled sanitizers active, or by mutating exported default policy internals process-wide.

### In-memory sanitization gaps
Programmatic DOM sanitization could miss dangerous mixed-case tag names such as `ScRiPt` or `StYlE`, and custom `drop_content_tags` values such as `{"SCRIPT"}` could silently fail to drop dangerous subtrees.

### Serialization injection
Crafted programmatic doctype names could serialize into active markup before the document body.

### Foreign-namespace policy bypasses
Custom policies that preserve SVG or MathML could allow active SVG features to survive sanitization, including:

- animation elements such as `<set>` and `<animate>` that mutate already-sanitized attributes after sanitization
- presentation attributes such as `fill`, `clip-path`, `mask`, `marker-start`, and `cursor` containing external `url(...)` references
- programmatic DOM trees that claim `namespace="html"` but serialize as `<svg>` or `<math>`, bypassing foreign-content checks

### Rawtext hardening gap
Mixed-case programmatic `style` or `script` nodes could bypass rawtext hardening and preserve active stylesheet content such as remote `@import` rules.

## Default configuration

Most of these issues did **not** affect the normal `JustHTML(..., sanitize=True)` path for ordinary parsed HTML.

The main exceptions were policy-mutation issues, which could weaken later sanitization if code mutated nested state on reused policy objects or exported defaults.

## Recommended action

Upgrade to `justhtml` `1.16.0`.

If you cannot upgrade immediately:

- do not mutate `DEFAULT_POLICY`, `DEFAULT_DOCUMENT_POLICY`, or nested policy internals
- avoid reusing policy objects after mutating nested state
- avoid preserving SVG or MathML for untrusted input
- avoid preserving `style` or `script` in custom policies for untrusted input
- avoid serializing untrusted programmatic doctypes or DOM trees

## Credit

Discovered during an internal security review of `justhtml`.

## Affected packages

- `justhtml < 1.16.0`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `justhtml 1.16.0`