PT-2025-36454 · Pypi · Sanitize-Html

Published 2025-09-08 · Updated 2025-09-08 · CVE-2014-125128

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: sanitize-html versions prior to 1.0.3

Description: The 'sanitize-html' software prior to version 1.0.3 is susceptible to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). The naughtyHref function inadequately validates the href attribute within anchor tags (<a>), enabling bypasses through variations in casing, whitespace characters, or hexadecimal encodings.

Recommendations: Update to sanitize-html version 1.0.3 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-125128

Affected Products

Sanitize-Html

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/Checkmarx/Vulnerabilities-Proofs-of-Concept/tree/main/2014/CVE-2014-125128 · Exploit
• https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/issues/1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/423b90e06e1e85245eccedaabeb3a82840c6cd86 · Patch
• https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/889d4ec968e175f1905b2eb9d33f1fa89217cb02 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-125128 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-125128 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-125128 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-125128 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/31944 · Telegram Post