CVE-2025-66021: Owasp Java Html Sanitizer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer is a configureable HTML Sanitizer written in Java, allowing inclusion of HTML authored by third-parties in web applications while protecting against XSS. In version 20240325.1, OWASP java html sanitizer is vulnerable to XSS if HtmlPolicyBuilder allows noscript and style tags with allowTextIn inside the style tag. This could lead to XSS if the payload is crafted in such a way that it does not sanitise the CSS and allows tags which is not mentioned in HTML policy. At time of publication no known patch is available.

Affected products

• Owasp Java Html Sanitizer: version 20240325.1 only

Published 2025-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.