Critical
Security advisory
The bluemonday sanitizer before 1.0.16 for Go, and before 0.0.8 for Python (in pybluemonday), does not properly enforce policies associated with the SELECT, STYLE, and OPTION elements.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-42576
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The bluemonday sanitizer before 1.0.16 for Go, and before 0.0.8 for Python (in pybluemonday), does not properly enforce policies associated with the SELECT, STYLE, and OPTION elements.
osv:CVE-2021-42576
Complete source record
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