CVE-2026-27142

URLs in meta content attribute actions are not escaped in html/template

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.1
EPSS
EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 27 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Go
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Actions which insert URLs into the content attribute of HTML meta tags are not escaped. This can allow XSS if the meta tag also has an http-equiv attribute with the value "refresh". A new GODEBUG setting has been added, htmlmetacontenturlescape, which can be used to disable escaping URLs in actions in the meta content attribute which follow "url=" by setting htmlmetacontenturlescape=0.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Go standard library · html/templateaffected 0 < 1.25.8 ; affected 1.26.0-0 < 1.26.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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