🛡️ CVE-2024-32875 — hugo

🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
6.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Hugo Markdown titles do not escaped in internal render hooks

Impact

Title argument in Markdown for links and images not escaped in internal render hooks. Impacted are Hugo users who have these hooks enabled and do not trust their Markdown content files.

Patches

Patched in v0.125.3.

Workarounds

Replace with user defined templates or disable the internal templates: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration-markup/#renderhooksimageenabledefault

References

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.125.3

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-32875 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2024-32875 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/gohugoio/hugo
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 23 April 2024 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
gohugo.io (Web)
pkg.go.dev (Web)

CVE-2024-32875 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 6.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-04-23
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/gohugoio/hugo — —
unknown — —

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