diff --git a/helpers/content.go b/helpers/content.go
index f6576c04f..591403cb0 100644
--- a/helpers/content.go
+++ b/helpers/content.go
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import (
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/common/maps"
+	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugolib/filesystems"
 	"github.com/niklasfasching/go-org/org"
 
 	bp "github.com/gohugoio/hugo/bufferpool"
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/miekg/mmark"
 	"github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure"
 	"github.com/russross/blackfriday"
+	"github.com/spf13/afero"
 	jww "github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman"
 
 	"strings"
@@ -466,6 +468,7 @@ func ExtractTOC(content []byte) (newcontent []byte, toc []byte) {
 // for a given content rendering.
 // By creating you must set the Config, otherwise it will panic.
 type RenderingContext struct {
+	BaseFs       *filesystems.BaseFs
 	Content      []byte
 	PageFmt      string
 	DocumentID   string
@@ -752,6 +755,9 @@ func getPandocContent(ctx *RenderingContext) []byte {
 func orgRender(ctx *RenderingContext, c ContentSpec) []byte {
 	config := org.New()
 	config.Log = jww.WARN
+	config.ReadFile = func(filename string) ([]byte, error) {
+		return afero.ReadFile(ctx.BaseFs.Content.Fs, filename)
+	}
 	writer := org.NewHTMLWriter()
 	writer.HighlightCodeBlock = func(source, lang string) string {
 		highlightedSource, err := c.Highlight(source, lang, "")
diff --git a/hugolib/page__per_output.go b/hugolib/page__per_output.go
index 3638f9669..6a1262703 100644
--- a/hugolib/page__per_output.go
+++ b/hugolib/page__per_output.go
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ func newPageContentOutput(p *pageState) func(f output.Format) (*pageContentOutpu
 					html := cp.p.s.ContentSpec.RenderBytes(&helpers.RenderingContext{
 						Content: []byte(cp.p.m.summary), RenderTOC: false, PageFmt: cp.p.m.markup,
 						Cfg:        p.Language(),
+						BaseFs:     p.s.BaseFs,
 						DocumentID: p.File().UniqueID(), DocumentName: p.File().Path(),
 						Config: cp.p.getRenderingConfig()})
 					html = cp.p.s.ContentSpec.TrimShortHTML(html)
@@ -314,6 +315,7 @@ func (cp *pageContentOutput) renderContent(p page.Page, content []byte) []byte {
 	return cp.p.s.ContentSpec.RenderBytes(&helpers.RenderingContext{
 		Content: content, RenderTOC: true, PageFmt: cp.p.m.markup,
 		Cfg:        p.Language(),
+		BaseFs:     cp.p.s.BaseFs,
 		DocumentID: p.File().UniqueID(), DocumentName: p.File().Path(),
 		Config: cp.p.getRenderingConfig()})
 }