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🛡️ CVE-2026-58402 — hugo

🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Hugo: XSS via unescaped code-fence language in default code block renderer

Hugo's default code-block renderer wrote the Markdown code-fence language / 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 is not an issue if you fully trust every file under /content and every content adapter you load.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-58402 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-2026-58402 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/gohugoio/hugo
  • hugo (from 0.60.0 up to 0.163.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 July 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 (Advisory)
github.com (Fix)

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:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-24

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/gohugoio/hugo — —
hugo 0.60.0 0.163.3

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