CVE-2024-32875

Hugo doesn't escape markdown title in internal render hooks

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Apr 23, 2024
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Apr 19, 2024

Description

Hugo is a static site generator. Starting in version 0.123.0 and prior to version 0.125.3, title arguments in Markdown for links and images not escaped in internal render hooks. Hugo users who are impacted are those who have these hooks enabled and do not trust their Markdown content files. The issue is patched in v0.125.3. As a workaround, replace the templates with user defined templates or disable the internal templates.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
hugogohugoio	>= 0.123.0, < 0.125.3Affected

References

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