XSS via incorrect rendering of nonHTML namespace text nodes
CVE-2023-3978 Published on August 2, 2023

Improper rendering of text nodes in golang.org/x/net/html
Text nodes not in the HTML namespace are incorrectly literally rendered, causing text which should be escaped to not be. This could lead to an XSS attack.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

Exploitation:
NONE
Automatable:
NO
Technical Impact:
PARTIAL

Products Associated with CVE-2023-3978

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GoLang Networking
Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Affected Versions

golang.org/x/net/html:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.85%
Percentile
58.69%

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