diff --git a/js/src/util/sanitizer.js b/js/src/util/sanitizer.js
index 5a07a67c1a..d2b08082ca 100644
--- a/js/src/util/sanitizer.js
+++ b/js/src/util/sanitizer.js
@@ -5,47 +5,6 @@
  * --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
 
-const uriAttributes = new Set([
-  'background',
-  'cite',
-  'href',
-  'itemtype',
-  'longdesc',
-  'poster',
-  'src',
-  'xlink:href'
-])
-
-/**
- * A pattern that recognizes a commonly useful subset of URLs that are safe.
- *
- * Shout-out to Angular https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/12.2.x/packages/core/src/sanitization/url_sanitizer.ts
- */
-const SAFE_URL_PATTERN = /^(?:(?:https?|mailto|ftp|tel|file|sms):|[^#&/:?]*(?:[#/?]|$))/i
-
-/**
- * A pattern that matches safe data URLs. Only matches image, video and audio types.
- *
- * Shout-out to Angular https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/12.2.x/packages/core/src/sanitization/url_sanitizer.ts
- */
-const DATA_URL_PATTERN = /^data:(?:image\/(?:bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg|png|tiff|webp)|video\/(?:mpeg|mp4|ogg|webm)|audio\/(?:mp3|oga|ogg|opus));base64,[\d+/a-z]+=*$/i
-
-const allowedAttribute = (attribute, allowedAttributeList) => {
-  const attributeName = attribute.nodeName.toLowerCase()
-
-  if (allowedAttributeList.includes(attributeName)) {
-    if (uriAttributes.has(attributeName)) {
-      return Boolean(SAFE_URL_PATTERN.test(attribute.nodeValue) || DATA_URL_PATTERN.test(attribute.nodeValue))
-    }
-
-    return true
-  }
-
-  // Check if a regular expression validates the attribute.
-  return allowedAttributeList.filter(attributeRegex => attributeRegex instanceof RegExp)
-    .some(regex => regex.test(attributeName))
-}
-
 // js-docs-start allow-list
 const ARIA_ATTRIBUTE_PATTERN = /^aria-[\w-]*$/i
 
@@ -84,6 +43,42 @@ export const DefaultAllowlist = {
 }
 // js-docs-end allow-list
 
+const uriAttributes = new Set([
+  'background',
+  'cite',
+  'href',
+  'itemtype',
+  'longdesc',
+  'poster',
+  'src',
+  'xlink:href'
+])
+
+/**
+ * A pattern that recognizes URLs that are safe wrt. XSS in URL navigation
+ * contexts.
+ *
+ * Shout-out to Angular https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/15.2.8/packages/core/src/sanitization/url_sanitizer.ts#L38
+ */
+// eslint-disable-next-line unicorn/better-regex
+const SAFE_URL_PATTERN = /^(?!javascript:)(?:[a-z0-9+.-]+:|[^&:/?#]*(?:[/?#]|$))/i
+
+const allowedAttribute = (attribute, allowedAttributeList) => {
+  const attributeName = attribute.nodeName.toLowerCase()
+
+  if (allowedAttributeList.includes(attributeName)) {
+    if (uriAttributes.has(attributeName)) {
+      return Boolean(SAFE_URL_PATTERN.test(attribute.nodeValue))
+    }
+
+    return true
+  }
+
+  // Check if a regular expression validates the attribute.
+  return allowedAttributeList.filter(attributeRegex => attributeRegex instanceof RegExp)
+    .some(regex => regex.test(attributeName))
+}
+
 export function sanitizeHtml(unsafeHtml, allowList, sanitizeFunction) {
   if (!unsafeHtml.length) {
     return unsafeHtml
@@ -102,7 +97,6 @@ export function sanitizeHtml(unsafeHtml, allowList, sanitizeFunction) {
 
     if (!Object.keys(allowList).includes(elementName)) {
       element.remove()
-
       continue
     }
 
diff --git a/js/tests/unit/util/sanitizer.spec.js b/js/tests/unit/util/sanitizer.spec.js
index 55e9b63364..2b21ef2e19 100644
--- a/js/tests/unit/util/sanitizer.spec.js
+++ b/js/tests/unit/util/sanitizer.spec.js
@@ -10,17 +10,75 @@ describe('Sanitizer', () => {
       expect(result).toEqual(empty)
     })
 
+    it('should retain tags with valid URLs', () => {
+      const validUrls = [
+        '',
+        'http://abc',
+        'HTTP://abc',
+        'https://abc',
+        'HTTPS://abc',
+        'ftp://abc',
+        'FTP://abc',
+        'mailto:me@example.com',
+        'MAILTO:me@example.com',
+        'tel:123-123-1234',
+        'TEL:123-123-1234',
+        'sip:me@example.com',
+        'SIP:me@example.com',
+        '#anchor',
+        '/page1.md',
+        'http://JavaScript/my.js',
+        'data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/', // Truncated.
+        'data:video/webm;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/',
+        'data:audio/opus;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/',
+        'unknown-scheme:abc'
+      ]
+
+      for (const url of validUrls) {
+        const template = [
+          '<div>',
+          `  <a href="${url}">Click me</a>`,
+          '  <span>Some content</span>',
+          '</div>'
+        ].join('')
+
+        const result = sanitizeHtml(template, DefaultAllowlist, null)
+
+        expect(result).toContain(`href="${url}"`)
+      }
+    })
+
     it('should sanitize template by removing tags with XSS', () => {
-      const template = [
-        '<div>',
-        '  <a href="javascript:alert(7)">Click me</a>',
-        '  <span>Some content</span>',
-        '</div>'
-      ].join('')
+      const invalidUrls = [
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-script-url
+        'javascript:alert(7)',
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-script-url
+        'javascript:evil()',
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-script-url
+        'JavaScript:abc',
+        ' javascript:abc',
+        ' \n Java\n Script:abc',
+        '&#106;&#97;&#118;&#97;&#115;&#99;&#114;&#105;&#112;&#116;&#58;',
+        '&#106&#97;&#118;&#97;&#115;&#99;&#114;&#105;&#112;&#116;&#58;',
+        '&#106 &#97;&#118;&#97;&#115;&#99;&#114;&#105;&#112;&#116;&#58;',
+        '&#0000106&#0000097&#0000118&#0000097&#0000115&#0000099&#0000114&#0000105&#0000112&#0000116&#0000058',
+        '&#x6A&#x61&#x76&#x61&#x73&#x63&#x72&#x69&#x70&#x74&#x3A;',
+        'jav&#x09;ascript:alert();',
+        'jav\u0000ascript:alert();'
+      ]
 
-      const result = sanitizeHtml(template, DefaultAllowlist, null)
+      for (const url of invalidUrls) {
+        const template = [
+          '<div>',
+          `  <a href="${url}">Click me</a>`,
+          '  <span>Some content</span>',
+          '</div>'
+        ].join('')
 
-      expect(result).not.toContain('href="javascript:alert(7)')
+        const result = sanitizeHtml(template, DefaultAllowlist, null)
+
+        expect(result).not.toContain(`href="${url}"`)
+      }
     })
 
     it('should sanitize template and work with multiple regex', () => {