GHSA-6565-fg86-6jcx

Django Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2015-2241

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	Django	< 1.7.6	1.7.6
PyPI	Django	>= 1.8a1, < 1.8b2	1.8b2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the contents function in `admin/helpers.py` in Django before 1.7.6 and 1.8 before 1.8b2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a model attribute in `ModelAdmin.readonly_fields`, as demonstrated by an `@property`.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2241 advisory
https://github.com/django/django/commit/2654e1b93923bac55f12b4e66c5e39b16695ace5 web
https://github.com/django/django/commit/82c9169077a066995e3b00aac551bf1c8a89d98a web
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24461 web
https://github.com/django/django package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-8.yaml web
https://web.archive.org/web/20150523054951/http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2015:109/?name=MDVSA-2015:1… web
https://web.archive.org/web/20171112005349/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73095 web
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/09/security-releases web
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109 web