CVE-2026-39823
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Description
CVE-2026-27142 fixed a vulnerability in which URLs were not correctly escaped inside of a <meta> tag's <content> attribute. If the URL content were to insert ASCII whitespaces around the '=' rune inside of the <content> attribute, the escaper would fail to similarly escape it, leading to XSS.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.1
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-05-07 20:16:43.290000
Last modified
2026-10-26 20:10:00.160000
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