CVE-2024-55601 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-55601

Hugo does not escape some attributes in internal templates

Vulnerability Description

Hugo is a static site generator. Starting in version 0.123.0 and prior to version 0.139.4, some HTML attributes in Markdown in the internal templates listed below not escaped in internal render hooks. Those whoa re 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`; and/or `shortcodes/youtube.html` from `v0.125.0`. This issue is patched in v0.139.4. As a workaround, one may replace an affected component with user defined templates or disable the internal templates.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

hugo
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 0.123.0, < 0.139.4

Timeline

Official Publish: December 9th, 2024
Last Modified: December 10th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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