CVE-2026-35166: Gohugo Hugo

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.60.0 to before 0.159.2, links and image links in the default markdown to HTML renderer are not properly escaped. Hugo users who trust their Markdown content or have custom render hooks for links and images are not affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.159.2.

Affected products

• Gohugo Hugo: from 0.60.0, before 0.159.2 (fixed in 0.159.2)

Published 2026-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.