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GHSA-5339-hvwr-7582

Unhead Vulnerable to Bypass of URI Scheme Sanitization in makeTagSafe via Case-Sensitivity

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2026-31873

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm unhead < 2.1.11 2.1.11

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The `link.href` check in `makeTagSafe` (safe.ts, line 68-71) uses `String.includes()`, which is case-sensitive: ```typescript if (key === 'href') { if (val.includes('javascript:') || val.includes('data:')) { return } next[key] = val } ``` Browsers treat URI schemes case-insensitively. `DATA:text/css,...` is the same as `data:text/css,...` to the browser, but `'DATA:...'.includes('data:')` returns `false`. ### PoC ```javascript useHeadSafe({ link: [{ rel: 'stylesheet', href: 'DATA:text/css,body{display:none}' }] }) ``` SSR output: ```html <link rel="stylesheet" href="DATA:text/css,body{display:none}"> ``` The browser loads this as a CSS stylesheet. An attacker can inject arbitrary CSS for UI redressing or data exfiltration via CSS attribute selectors with background-image callbacks. Any case variation works: `DATA:`, `Data:`, `dAtA:`, `JAVASCRIPT:`, etc. ## Suggested fix ```typescript if (key === 'href') { const lower = val.toLowerCase() if (lower.includes('javascript:') || lower.includes('data:')) { return } next[key] = val } ```

References

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