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CVE-2026-100691 Details

Description

Hugo versions 0.75.0 through 0.165.x contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability: the syntax highlighter does not escape the `lineAnchors` option before passing it to Chroma, which writes the value verbatim into the `id` and `href` attributes of the generated line-number markup. A crafted `lineAnchors` value supplied as a Markdown code fence attribute (or passed to the `highlight` template function) results in unescaped HTML in the rendered page, allowing arbitrary JavaScript to execute in the browsers of visitors to the generated site. This affects sites that build and publish Markdown from untrusted contributors; Hugo's security model otherwise considers content trusted input. Fixed in 0.166.0, where the `lineAnchors` value is HTML-escaped before being passed to Chroma.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.4 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisories/GHSA-q4xf-287f-98r8	[email protected]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hugo-before-0.166.0-stored-xss-via-lineanchors-code-block-option	[email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-79	Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')	[email protected]

Affected Products

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Change History

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