Cross-site scripting vulnerability in phoenixframework phoenix_live_view allows an attacker to bypass URL scheme validation and execute JavaScript in a victim's browser session.
The Phoenix.LiveView.Utils.valid_destination!/2 and Phoenix.LiveView.Utils.valid_live_navigation_destination!/2 functions in lib/phoenix_live_view/utils.ex rely on an internal uri_scheme/1 helper that only detects a scheme when the input's first byte is an ASCII letter. Inputs beginning with an ASCII control character or space fall through to a nil-returning clause, causing the URL to be treated as a safe relative path.
Standard browsers implement the WHATWG URL parser, which strips leading C0 control and space characters before parsing. As a result, an input such as " javascript:alert(1)" is passed unchanged into <.link href={...}> and, when clicked, is parsed by the browser as a javascript: URL that executes attacker-controlled script in the victim's session.
Applications that render user-supplied URLs (for example profile links, redirect targets, or external references) via <.link href={...}> are affected.
This issue affects phoenix_live_view: from 1.2.2 before 1.2.7.
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| Description | Cross-site scripting vulnerability in phoenixframework phoenix_live_view allows an attacker to bypass URL scheme validation and execute JavaScript in a victim's browser session. The Phoenix.LiveView.Utils.valid_destination!/2 and Phoenix.LiveView.Utils.valid_live_navigation_destination!/2 functions in lib/phoenix_live_view/utils.ex rely on an internal uri_scheme/1 helper that only detects a scheme when the input's first byte is an ASCII letter. Inputs beginning with an ASCII control character or space fall through to a nil-returning clause, causing the URL to be treated as a safe relative path. Standard browsers implement the WHATWG URL parser, which strips leading C0 control and space characters before parsing. As a result, an input such as " javascript:alert(1)" is passed unchanged into <.link href={...}> and, when clicked, is parsed by the browser as a javascript: URL that executes attacker-controlled script in the victim's session. Applications that render user-supplied URLs (for example profile links, redirect targets, or external references) via <.link href={...}> are affected. This issue affects phoenix_live_view: from 1.2.2 before 1.2.7. | |
| Title | Scheme validation bypass in Phoenix.LiveView.Utils leads to XSS via <.link> | |
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Phoenixframework phoenix Live View |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:phoenixframework:phoenix_live_view:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Phoenixframework phoenix Live View |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published: 2026-07-13T18:04:30.636Z
Updated: 2026-07-14T04:15:01.996Z
Reserved: 2026-06-29T18:54:08.633Z
Link: CVE-2026-58228
Updated: 2026-07-13T18:58:43.613Z
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