GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m: Improper detection of disallowed URIs by Loofah `allowed_uri?`

March 18, 2026

Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri? does not correctly reject javascript: URIs when the scheme is split by HTML entity-encoded control characters such as  (carriage return), 
 (line feed), or 	 (tab).

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m
github.com/flavorjones/loofah
github.com/flavorjones/loofah/security/advisories/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m

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