gohugoio/hugo · Security
Hugo: Certain markdown links are not properly escaped
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mcv8-8m8x-48pg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-35166
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 5.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Description
Impact
Links and image links in the default markdown to HTML renderer are not properly escaped. Hugo users who trust their Markdown content or have custom render hooks for links and images are not affected.
Patches
Patched in v0.159.2
Workarounds
Create custom render hooks for links and images in a Hugo theme/project.
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')