diff --git a/scripts/lib/uri-safety.mjs b/scripts/lib/uri-safety.mjs
index 7672d1a4..9814ef95 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/uri-safety.mjs
+++ b/scripts/lib/uri-safety.mjs
@@ -120,6 +120,33 @@ export function activeScheme(value) {
  */
 export function remoteTarget(value) {
   const normalized = normalizeUri(value);
+  // A scheme does not make a value absolute on its own: the parser only
+  // enters the relative states when the value's scheme equals the base
+  // document's. The site is served over https (`url` in
+  // docusaurus.config.js), so `https:local.png` is the path `local.png` on
+  // this origin and is correctly left alone below.
+  //
+  // `http:` is a *different* special scheme, so it never reaches those
+  // states. It goes to "special authority ignore slashes", which skips
+  // however many `/` or `\` follow -- including none -- and reads what comes
+  // next as the host. `http:evil.example/b.png`, `http:/evil.example/b.png`
+  // and `http:\evil.example/b.png` therefore load from evil.example exactly
+  // as `http://evil.example/b.png` does, while matching neither the `//`
+  // test nor the two-or-more-separator rewrite below.
+  //
+  // Being cleartext does not make the reference harmless: a browser that
+  // blocks the mixed-content subresource has already been told to, and one
+  // that auto-upgrades it to https still sends the request -- with the
+  // visitor's IP, User-Agent and Referer -- to the host named here.
+  //
+  // Lookahead: a value with nothing after the separators (`http:`, `http:/`,
+  // `http://`) has no host, and one continuing with `?` or `#` is not a URL
+  // the parser accepts, so neither fetches anything to report.
+  const insecureAuthority = /^http:[/\\]*(?=[^/\\?#])/.exec(normalized);
+  if (insecureAuthority) {
+    return `http://${normalized.slice(insecureAuthority[0].length)}`;
+  }
+
   // The URL parser treats `\` as `/` in the scheme and authority prefix of a
   // special-scheme URL, and the site is served over https, so every relative
   // reference resolves against a special-scheme base. `\\host`, `/\host`,
diff --git a/tests/svg-active-content.test.mjs b/tests/svg-active-content.test.mjs
index 2d4c98d9..a838e26e 100644
--- a/tests/svg-active-content.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/svg-active-content.test.mjs
@@ -507,6 +507,50 @@ for (const [label, value] of [
   });
 }
 
+// `http:` is not the scheme this site is served over, so the parser never
+// treats it as relative: it skips however many separators follow -- including
+// none -- and reads the next component as the host. Each value below loads
+// from evil.example in a browser exactly as `http://evil.example` does, and a
+// browser that auto-upgrades the mixed-content request still sends the
+// visitor's IP, User-Agent and Referer to that host.
+for (const [value, expected] of [
+  ['http:evil.example/b.png', 'http://evil.example/b.png'],
+  ['http:/evil.example/b.png', 'http://evil.example/b.png'],
+  ['http:\\evil.example/b.png', 'http://evil.example/b.png'],
+  ['http:///evil.example/b.png', 'http://evil.example/b.png'],
+  ['HTTP:evil.example/b.png', 'http://evil.example/b.png'],
+]) {
+  test(`detects a slashless http: authority: ${value}`, () => {
+    const svg = `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><image href="${value}"/></svg>`;
+    assert.deepEqual(findRemoteReferences(svg), [
+      `references a remote resource in <image> href: ${expected}`,
+    ]);
+  });
+}
+
+// The same shape under the *site's own* scheme is relative, and a scheme with
+// no host after it is not a URL the parser accepts. Flagging either would
+// fail a diagram that references its own sibling assets.
+for (const [label, value] of [
+  ['an https: value with no separator, which is a sibling path', 'https:a.png'],
+  ['an http: scheme with no host at all', 'http:'],
+  ['an http: scheme followed only by a query', 'http:?q'],
+  ['an http: scheme followed only by a fragment', 'http:#f'],
+]) {
+  test(`does not flag ${label}`, () => {
+    const svg = `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><image href="${value}"/></svg>`;
+    assert.deepEqual(findRemoteReferences(svg), []);
+  });
+}
+
+test('detects a slashless http: authority in a CSS url()', () => {
+  const svg =
+    '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><style>rect{fill:url(http:evil.example/b.png)}</style><rect/></svg>';
+  assert.deepEqual(findRemoteReferences(svg), [
+    'references a remote resource in a <style> block: http://evil.example/b.png',
+  ]);
+});
+
 test('detects a remote url() in a <style> block, including @font-face src', () => {
   const svg =
     '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><style>@font-face{font-family:x;src:url(https://evil.example/f.woff)}</style><text style="font-family:x">a</text></svg>';