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AIKIDO-2026-11035

golang.org/x/net is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation

Improper Input ValidationCVE-2026-27136 Published Yesterday

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Medium Risk

This Affects:

GOgolang.org/x/net
0.0.0 - 0.54.0
Fixed in 0.55.0
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TL;DR

Parsing arbitrary HTML which is then rendered using Render can result in an unexpected HTML tree. This can be leveraged to execute XSS attacks in applications that attempt to sanitize input HTML before rendering.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and if you use the golang.org/x/net/html functionalities.

Background info

golang.org/x/net is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation in versions 0.0.0 - 0.54.0.

How to fix this

Upgrade the golang.org/x/net library to the patch version.