CVE-2026-100691 PUBLISHED

Hugo before 0.166.0 Stored XSS via lineAnchors code block option

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 26.09.2026 Published: 26.09.2026 Updated: 26.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 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
CVSS Score: 5.1

Product Status

Vendor gohugoio
Product hugo
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.75.0 to 0.166.0 (excl.)
  • Version 0.166.0 is unaffected

Credits

  • DONG2209 finder

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE