# CVE-2024-55601: Hugo does not escape some attributes in internal templates

- Also known as: GO-2024-3314, GHSA-C2XF-9V2R-R2RX
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.139.4
- Published: 2024-12-09 · Updated: 2024-12-10

## Affected

- gohugoio hugo: from 0.123.0, fixed in 0.139.4
- github.com/gohugoio/hugo (Go): from 0.123.0, fixed in 0.139.4

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gohugoio hugo, github.com/gohugoio/hugo, upgrade to a fixed version (0.139.4) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisories/GHSA-c2xf-9v2r-r2rx
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commit/54398f8d572c689f9785d59e907fd910a23401b0
- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.139.4
- https://gohugo.io/getting-started/configuration-markup/#renderhooksimageenabledefault

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