Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.60.0 to before 0.159.2, links and image links in the default markdown to HTML renderer are not properly escaped. Hugo users who trust their Markdown content or have custom render hooks for links and images are not affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.159.2.
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| Description | Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.60.0 to before 0.159.2, links and image links in the default markdown to HTML renderer are not properly escaped. Hugo users who trust their Markdown content or have custom render hooks for links and images are not affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.159.2. | |
| Title | Hugo does not properly escape some Markdown links | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-04-06T17:37:05.643Z
Updated: 2026-04-06T18:02:37.432Z
Reserved: 2026-04-01T17:26:21.133Z
Link: CVE-2026-35166
Updated: 2026-04-06T18:02:30.593Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-04-06T18:16:43.060
Modified: 2026-04-07T13:20:11.643
Link: CVE-2026-35166