Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.60.0 until 0.163.3, Hugo's default code-block renderer wrote the Markdown code-fence language or 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 issue is fixed in 0.163.3.

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Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Gohugo
Gohugo hugo
Vendors & Products Gohugo
Gohugo hugo

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.60.0 until 0.163.3, Hugo's default code-block renderer wrote the Markdown code-fence language or 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 issue is fixed in 0.163.3.
Title Hugo default code block renderer XSS via unescaped code-fence language
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-06T20:54:38.775Z

Reserved: 2026-06-30T18:19:58.378Z

Link: CVE-2026-58402

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-06T20:54:16.440Z

cve-icon NVD

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-07-06T22:15:15Z

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