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AIKIDO-2026-11036

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

Improper Input ValidationCVE-2026-25681 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

The HTML parser mishandled character references in DOCTYPE nodes, causing them to be incorrectly rendered. This can lead to XSS when rendering parsed HTML.

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.