Potential cross-site scripting via URLField values in the admin (djangoproject Django)

CVE-2026-15920
MEDIUM 5.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.35 % · percentile 29 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
DSF
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 6.0 before 6.0.8. `django.contrib.admin.utils.display_for_field()` renders `URLField` values as clickable links in the admin without validating the URL. A value stored with an unsafe scheme is displayed as a link on changelist and read-only admin pages, which allows cross-site scripting against staff users who click the link. Exploitation requires the unsafe value to already be stored in the database. `URLField` validation through a `ModelForm` or the admin rejects unsafe schemes, so this affects applications that persist `URLField` data without running model validation, for example through direct queryset writes, deserialization, or bulk import of untrusted input. Django would like to thank Egor Saltykov for reporting this issue.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-83 — Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes in a Web Page

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NDSF
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:NDSF
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · 6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NNVD · 6a34fbeb-21d4-45e7-8e0a-62b95bc12c92 (Secondary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
djangoproject · Djangoaffected 6.0 < 6.0.8 ; unaffected 6.0.8 ; affected 5.2 < 5.2.17 ; unaffected 5.2.17

Sources

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