CVE-2026-27142 (GCVE-0-2026-27142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-06 21:28 – Updated: 2026-03-16 15:21
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Title
URLs in meta content attribute actions are not escaped in html/template
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library html/template Affected: 0 , < 1.25.8 (semver)
Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.1 (semver)
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