Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.60.0 until 0.163.3, Hugo's default code-block renderer wrote the Markdown code-fence language or info-string into the code class="language-…" data-lang="…" wrapper without HTML escaping. A fence info-string containing a quote and a script payload breaks out of the attribute and injects a live script element. This issue is fixed in 0.163.3.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/ce1a7e0bce3713af40496ded3c2c0ceeed49231d Patch
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisories/GHSA-q76j-gcg9-vxc6 Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.1 · gohugoNVD modified 2026-10-25 20:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:gohugo:hugo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 4
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/ce1a7e0bce3713af40496ded3c2c0ceeed49231d Patch
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/15051 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.163.3 Release Notes
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisories/GHSA-q76j-gcg9-vxc6 Vendor Advisory