CVE-2026-39823

Bypass of meta content URL escaping causes XSS in html/template

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
May 7, 2026
Updated
May 8, 2026
Reserved
Apr 7, 2026

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Description

CVE-2026-27142 fixed a vulnerability in which URLs were not correctly escaped inside of a <meta> tag's <content> attribute. If the URL content were to insert ASCII whitespaces around the '=' rune inside of the <content> attribute, the escaper would fail to similarly escape it, leading to XSS.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
html/templateGo standard library
  • before 1.25.10Affected
  • 1.26.0-0 to before 1.26.3Affected

References

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