diff --git a/src/lib/__tests__/articles-db-sanitization.test.ts b/src/lib/__tests__/articles-db-sanitization.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..350e863
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/__tests__/articles-db-sanitization.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+vi.mock('../db/client', () => ({ db: {} }));
+vi.mock('../memories-db', () => ({ findMemoryByUrl: vi.fn(), createMemoryRecord: vi.fn() }));
+
+import { sanitizeArticlePayload } from '../articles-db';
+import { sanitizeBrowserMemorySnapshot } from '../browser-memory-import';
+
+const sourceUrl = 'https://source.example/articles/story?edition=1#intro';
+const sanitize = (content: string, url = sourceUrl) =>
+  sanitizeArticlePayload({ content, url, userId: 'synthetic-user' }).content;
+
+describe('article source URL sanitization', () => {
+  it.each([
+    ['/explore/', 'https://source.example/explore/'],
+    ['/insights/?topic=ai#latest', 'https://source.example/insights/?topic=ai#latest'],
+    ['next?edition=2#details', 'https://source.example/articles/next?edition=2#details'],
+    ['../archive/', 'https://source.example/archive/'],
+    ['?edition=2#details', 'https://source.example/articles/story?edition=2#details'],
+    ['//cdn.example/image.png', 'https://cdn.example/image.png'],
+  ])('resolves href and src %s using the full source URL', (relative, absolute) => {
+    const content = sanitize(`<a href="${relative}">link</a><img src="${relative}" />`);
+    expect(content).toContain(`href="${absolute}"`);
+    expect(content).toContain(`src="${absolute}"`);
+  });
+
+  it('uses the source protocol and directory or trailing slash', () => {
+    expect(sanitize('<img src="//cdn.example/image.png" />', 'http://source.example/')).toContain(
+      'src="http://cdn.example/image.png"'
+    );
+    expect(sanitize('<a href="next">link</a>', 'https://source.example/articles/')).toContain(
+      'href="https://source.example/articles/next"'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('keeps local fragments and safe markup unchanged', () => {
+    const html =
+      '<h2 id="details">Details</h2><p class="body"><strong>Text</strong> ' +
+      '<a href="#details">jump</a><a href="https://other.example/path?x=1#part">external</a>' +
+      '<a href="mailto:reader@example.org">email</a></p><img src="data:image/png;base64,AA==" />';
+    expect(sanitize(html)).toBe(html);
+    expect(sanitize(sanitize(html))).toBe(html);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    'javascript:alert(1)',
+    'jav&#x61;script:alert(1)',
+    'java&#10;script:alert(1)',
+    'vbscript:alert(1)',
+    'file:///private/file',
+    'blob:https://source.example/id',
+    'data:text/html,unsafe',
+  ])('rejects unsafe scheme %s', (url) => {
+    const html = sanitize(
+      `<a href="${url}">link</a><img src="${url}" /><iframe src="${url}"></iframe>`
+    );
+    expect(html).not.toContain('href=');
+    if (!url.startsWith('data:')) expect(html).not.toContain('src=');
+    // Images retain the existing data: allowance; links and frames do not.
+    expect(html).not.toContain('<iframe src=');
+  });
+
+  it('retains sanitization and iframe host restrictions', () => {
+    const html = sanitize(
+      '<base href="https://untrusted.example/"><script>alert(1)</script>' +
+        '<p onclick="alert(1)">Text</p><iframe src="//untrusted.example/embed"></iframe>' +
+        '<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/synthetic"></iframe>'
+    );
+    expect(html).not.toMatch(/<base|<script|onclick|untrusted\.example/);
+    expect(html).toContain('src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/synthetic"');
+  });
+
+  it('does not use an invalid or unsafe source as a base', () => {
+    expect(sanitize('<a href="javascript:alert(1)">link</a>', 'javascript:alert(1)')).toBe(
+      '<a>link</a>'
+    );
+    expect(sanitize('<p>Text</p>', 'not a URL')).toBe('<p>Text</p>');
+  });
+
+  it('resolves browser-memory imports through the real shared sanitizer', () => {
+    const result = sanitizeBrowserMemorySnapshot({
+      url: sourceUrl,
+      content: '<a href="/insights/">link</a><img src="../image.png" /><a href="#intro">jump</a>',
+    });
+    expect(result).toHaveProperty('snapshot');
+    if ('snapshot' in result) {
+      expect(result.snapshot.content).toBe(
+        '<a href="https://source.example/insights/">link</a>' +
+          '<img src="https://source.example/image.png" /><a href="#intro">jump</a>'
+      );
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/articles-db.ts b/src/lib/articles-db.ts
index 1320c38..8724f39 100644
--- a/src/lib/articles-db.ts
+++ b/src/lib/articles-db.ts
@@ -104,7 +104,34 @@ async function filterOwnedListIds(userId: string, listIds: string[]): Promise<st
 export const sanitizePlainText = (value: unknown) =>
   sanitizeHtml(String(value ?? ''), plainTextSanitizeOptions).trim();
 
-const sanitizeHTML = (value: unknown) => sanitizeHtml(String(value ?? ''), htmlSanitizeOptions);
+export function sanitizeArticleHTML(value: unknown, sourceUrl: string): string {
+  let baseUrl: URL | undefined;
+  try {
+    const parsed = new URL(sourceUrl);
+    if (parsed.protocol === 'http:' || parsed.protocol === 'https:') baseUrl = parsed;
+  } catch {
+    // Non-web article types may have no usable source URL.
+  }
+
+  return sanitizeHtml(String(value ?? ''), {
+    ...htmlSanitizeOptions,
+    transformTags: {
+      '*': (tagName, attribs) => {
+        for (const attribute of ['href', 'src']) {
+          const value = attribs[attribute]?.trim();
+          if (!baseUrl || !value || value.startsWith('#')) continue;
+          try {
+            attribs[attribute] = new URL(value, baseUrl).href;
+          } catch {
+            delete attribs[attribute];
+          }
+        }
+        // sanitize-html applies its scheme and attribute checks after this transform.
+        return { tagName, attribs };
+      },
+    },
+  });
+}
 
 export const sanitizeTitle = (value: unknown, fallback = '') =>
   sanitizePlainText(value ?? fallback).slice(0, 500);
@@ -207,7 +234,7 @@ export function sanitizeArticlePayload(payload: {
     url: sanitizedUrl,
     title: sanitizeTitle(payload.title, sanitizedUrl),
     byline: sanitizePlainText(payload.byline || ''),
-    content: sanitizeHTML(payload.content || ''),
+    content: sanitizeArticleHTML(payload.content || '', sanitizedUrl),
     projectId: sanitizePlainText(payload.projectId || defProjectId) || defProjectId,
     tags: normalizeTags(payload.tags),
     userId: payload.userId,
diff --git a/src/worker/routes/__tests__/misc-snapshot.test.ts b/src/worker/routes/__tests__/misc-snapshot.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd65958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/worker/routes/__tests__/misc-snapshot.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+import { Hono } from 'hono';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+const mocks = vi.hoisted(() => ({ user: vi.fn(), validate: vi.fn(), fetch: vi.fn() }));
+vi.mock('../../../lib/auth-api', () => ({ getAuthenticatedUserId: mocks.user }));
+vi.mock('../../../lib/db/client', () => ({ db: {}, schema: {} }));
+vi.mock('../../../lib/url-validation', () => ({ validateExternalUrl: mocks.validate }));
+vi.mock('../../../lib/ai-cloudflare', () => ({ getLanguageModel: vi.fn() }));
+
+import { sanitizeArticlePayload } from '../../../lib/articles-db';
+import routes from '../misc';
+
+const app = new Hono().route('/api', routes);
+const startUrl = 'https://initial.example/start';
+const finalUrl = 'https://source.example/articles/story?edition=1#intro';
+const html = `<html><head><title>Synthetic article</title>
+  <base href="https://untrusted.example/"></head><body><article><h1>Synthetic article</h1>
+  <p>${'This is a synthetic readable article for testing source links. '.repeat(30)}</p>
+  <p><a href="/explore/">Explore</a><a href="/insights/">Insights</a>
+  <a href="next?edition=2#details">Next</a><a href="?edition=2#details">Edition</a>
+  <a href="#intro">Jump</a><img src="../image.png"><img src="//cdn.example/image.png">
+  <a href="javascript:alert(1)">Unsafe</a></p></article></body></html>`;
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.clearAllMocks();
+  mocks.user.mockResolvedValue('synthetic-user');
+  mocks.validate.mockImplementation(async (url: string) => ({ ok: true, url: new URL(url) }));
+  vi.stubGlobal('fetch', mocks.fetch);
+});
+afterEach(() => vi.unstubAllGlobals());
+
+describe('snapshot source URL resolution', () => {
+  it('resolves extracted links using the validated redirect destination before storage', async () => {
+    mocks.fetch
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(
+        new Response(null, {
+          status: 302,
+          headers: { location: finalUrl },
+        })
+      )
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(new Response(html));
+    const response = await app.request(`/api/snapshot?url=${encodeURIComponent(startUrl)}`);
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    const { snapshot } = await response.json();
+    expect(snapshot.url).toBe(finalUrl);
+    expect(mocks.validate).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, startUrl);
+    expect(mocks.validate).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(2, finalUrl);
+    expect(mocks.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(mocks.fetch).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(
+      2,
+      finalUrl,
+      expect.objectContaining({ redirect: 'manual' })
+    );
+    for (const url of [
+      'https://source.example/explore/',
+      'https://source.example/insights/',
+      'https://source.example/articles/next?edition=2#details',
+      'https://source.example/articles/story?edition=2#details',
+      'https://source.example/image.png',
+      'https://cdn.example/image.png',
+    ]) {
+      expect(snapshot.content).toContain(url);
+    }
+    expect(snapshot.content).toContain('href="#intro"');
+    expect(snapshot.content).not.toMatch(/javascript:|untrusted\.example/);
+    // Capture callers currently save the initial URL. Absolute extracted links survive that step.
+    expect(
+      sanitizeArticlePayload({ ...snapshot, url: startUrl, userId: 'synthetic-user' }).content
+    ).toBe(snapshot.content);
+  });
+
+  it('resolves a non-redirected capture against its full source URL', async () => {
+    mocks.fetch.mockResolvedValueOnce(new Response(html));
+    const response = await app.request(`/api/snapshot?url=${encodeURIComponent(finalUrl)}`);
+    const { snapshot } = await response.json();
+    expect(snapshot.url).toBe(finalUrl);
+    expect(snapshot.content).toContain('https://source.example/articles/next?edition=2#details');
+    expect(mocks.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('rejects unsafe initial URLs without fetching', async () => {
+    mocks.validate.mockResolvedValue({ ok: false, reason: 'Blocked: localhost' });
+    const response = await app.request('/api/snapshot?url=http://localhost/private');
+    expect(response.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(mocks.fetch).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('rejects unsafe redirects before fetching the target', async () => {
+    mocks.fetch.mockResolvedValueOnce(
+      new Response(null, {
+        status: 302,
+        headers: { location: 'http://127.0.0.1/private' },
+      })
+    );
+    mocks.validate
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({ ok: true, url: new URL(startUrl) })
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({ ok: false, reason: 'Blocked: private or reserved IP' });
+    const response = await app.request(`/api/snapshot?url=${encodeURIComponent(startUrl)}`);
+    expect(response.status).toBe(500);
+    expect(mocks.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/worker/routes/misc.ts b/src/worker/routes/misc.ts
index 228cae8..47962d3 100644
--- a/src/worker/routes/misc.ts
+++ b/src/worker/routes/misc.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ import { Hono } from 'hono';
 import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom';
 
 import { getLanguageModel } from '../../lib/ai-cloudflare';
-import { fetchAllTags, fetchArticlesForSourceMap, searchArticles } from '../../lib/articles-db';
+import {
+  fetchAllTags,
+  fetchArticlesForSourceMap,
+  sanitizeArticleHTML,
+  searchArticles,
+} from '../../lib/articles-db';
 import { getAuthenticatedUserId } from '../../lib/auth-api';
 import type { BrowserMemorySnapshotInput } from '../../lib/browser-memory-import';
 import { importBrowserMemorySnapshots } from '../../lib/browser-memory-import';
@@ -187,7 +192,7 @@ async function fetchSnapshot(targetUrl: string): Promise<{
   siteName: string | null;
   url: string;
 }> {
-  const { response } = await fetchWithValidatedRedirects(targetUrl, {
+  const { response, url } = await fetchWithValidatedRedirects(targetUrl, {
     headers: {
       'User-Agent': SNAPSHOT_USER_AGENT,
       Accept: 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
@@ -206,6 +211,12 @@ async function fetchSnapshot(targetUrl: string): Promise<{
 
   const html = new TextDecoder().decode(body);
   const { document } = parseHTML(html);
+  // Readability resolves URLs itself. Use the validated source, not an HTML base tag,
+  // and match documentURI so its local fragment links remain local.
+  Object.defineProperties(document, {
+    baseURI: { value: url.href },
+    documentURI: { value: url.href },
+  });
 
   const reader = new Readability(document);
   const article = reader.parse();
@@ -216,10 +227,10 @@ async function fetchSnapshot(targetUrl: string): Promise<{
 
   return {
     title: article.title ?? '',
-    content: article.content ?? '',
+    content: sanitizeArticleHTML(article.content ?? '', url.href),
     byline: article.byline ?? null,
     siteName: article.siteName ?? null,
-    url: targetUrl,
+    url: url.href,
   };
 }