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🛡️ CVE-2024-55601 — hugo

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Hugo does not escape some attributes in internal templates

Impact

Some HTML attributes in Markdown in the internal templates listed below not escaped. Impacted are Hugo users who do not trust their Markdown content files and are using one or more of these templates.

  • _default/_markup/render-link.html from v0.123.0
  • _default/_markup/render-image.html from v0.123.0
  • _default/_markup/render-table.html from v0.134.0
  • shortcodes/youtube.html from v0.125.0

Patches

Patched in v0.139.4.

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/v0.139.4
  • https://gohugo.io/about/security/

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. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: 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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: None — no deployment-specific condition has to hold.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Passive — a victim action is involved, but not a deliberate one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-55601 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-2024-55601 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/gohugoio/hugo
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 9 December 2024 and last revised on 3 March 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)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/gohugoio/hugo has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS)) in other software:

CVE-2024-55601 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector 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
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-12-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-03-03

Affected Packages

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

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