GHSA-5339-hvwr-7582
Unhead Vulnerable to Bypass of URI Scheme Sanitization in makeTagSafe via Case-Sensitivity
Quick fix
GHSA-5339-hvwr-7582 — unhead: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install unhead@2.1.11Details
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 } ```
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