Medium severity · published Apr 9, 2026
CVE-2026-39315
Unhead has a hasDangerousProtocol() bypass via leading-zero padded HTML entities in useHeadSafe()
6.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Unhead is a document head and template manager. Prior to 2.1.13, useHeadSafe() is the composable that Nuxt's own documentation explicitly recommends for rendering user-supplied content in <head> safely. Internally, the hasDangerousProtocol() function in packages/unhead/src/plugins/safe.ts decodes HTML entities before checking for blocked URI schemes (javascript:, data:, vbscript:). The decoder uses two regular expressions with fixed-width digit caps. The HTML5 specification imposes no limit on leading zeros in numeric character references. When a padded entity exceeds the regex digit cap, the decoder silently skips it. The undecoded string is then passed to startsWith('javascript:'), which does not match. makeTagSafe() writes the raw value directly into SSR HTML output. The browser's HTML parser decodes the padded entity natively and constructs the blocked URI. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.13.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 21% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UN
unhead · unjs
< 2.1.13 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39315
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-39315
Patch
https://github.com/unjs/unhead/commit/961ea781e091853812ffe17f8cda17105d2d2299
Product
https://github.com/unjs/unhead/releases/tag/v2.1.13
Exploit
https://github.com/unjs/unhead/security/advisories/GHSA-95h2-gj7x-gx9w
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