x-net up to 0.54.x on Go cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in x-net up to 0.54.x on Go. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-25681. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in x-net up to 0.54.x on Go. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at go.dev. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-25681 since 02/05/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 321461 (openSUSE 16 Security Update : trivy (openSUSE-SU-2026:20956-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.55.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (321461) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-1653). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Fedora Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• RESF Rocky Linux
• IBM MQ
• Golang Go
• SUSE openSUSE
• Red Hat OpenShift

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• x-net

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27
• 0.28
• 0.29
• 0.30
• 0.31
• 0.32
• 0.33
• 0.34
• 0.35
• 0.36
• 0.37
• 0.38
• 0.39
• 0.40
• 0.41
• 0.42
• 0.43
• 0.44
• 0.45
• 0.46
• 0.47
• 0.48
• 0.49
• 0.50
• 0.51
• 0.52
• 0.53
• 0.54

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