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.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-6f3d11bdc6 advisory.

    Update to 0.162.1 (rhbz#2455512)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-7fe2bb8a08 advisory.

    Update to 0.162.1 (rhbz#2455512)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2026-35166)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
321166	Fedora 43 : hugo (2026-6f3d11bdc6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
321164	Fedora 44 : hugo (2026-7fe2bb8a08)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
305105	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-35166	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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