Commit: e41a06447d — Disallow HTML content by default
Affected versions: all Hugo versions prior to v0.162.0.
Fixed in: v0.162.0.
Severity: Low to Medium, depending on threat model. Not an issue if you fully trust every file under /content and every content adapter you load.
Description. Hugo accepts content files in several markup formats. Files mapped to the text/html media type (typically .html files under /content, or pages produced by a content adapter that sets content.mediaType = "text/html") had their body emitted verbatim into the rendered page. A site that ingests HTML content from an untrusted source — for example, a CMS-backed editor, a content adapter pulling from an external API, or an automated import pipeline — could therefore be served stored cross-site scripting.
Mitigation. v0.162.0 introduces a security.allowContent whitelist with text/html denied by default. Sites that intentionally author HTML content can opt back in:
[security]
allowContent = ['.*']
This only affects pages whose source file (or content adapter output) declares an HTML media type; Markdown, AsciiDoc, Org, Pandoc and reStructuredText content is unaffected.
{
"sources": [
{
"database_specific": {
"status": "Analyzed"
},
"id": "CVE-2026-50133",
"imported": "2026-07-24T13:46:36.652Z",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50133",
"published": "2026-07-06T20:16:37.043Z",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2026-50133",
"modified": "2026-07-08T03:08:33.383Z"
},
{
"id": "GHSA-c54g-xjwj-8g82",
"imported": "2026-07-24T13:46:39.963Z",
"html_url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c54g-xjwj-8g82",
"published": "2026-06-16T19:22:14Z",
"url": "https://api.github.com/advisories/GHSA-c54g-xjwj-8g82",
"modified": "2026-06-16T19:22:16Z"
},
{
"id": "EUVD-2026-41909",
"imported": "2026-07-24T13:46:37.731Z",
"html_url": "https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-41909",
"published": "2026-07-06T19:31:18Z",
"url": "https://euvdservices.enisa.europa.eu/api/enisaid?id=EUVD-2026-41909",
"modified": "2026-07-07T14:44:31Z"
}
],
"license": "CC-BY-4.0"
}