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CVE-2026-39826GO-2026-4980BIT-GOLANG-2026-39826

Escaper bypass leads to XSS in html/template

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.25.10, 1.26.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

If a trusted template author were to write a <script> tag containing an empty 'type' attribute or a 'type' attribute with an ASCII whitespace, the execution of the template would incorrectly escape any data passed into the <script> block.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • html/template

    fixed in 1.25.10; From 1.26.0-0 · fixed in 1.26.3

  • stdlibGo

    fixed in 1.25.10; From 1.26.0-0 · fixed in 1.26.3

References 4

go.dev

groups.google.com

pkg.go.dev