CVE-2026-15920Potential cross-site scripting via URLField values in the admin
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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.
- CVSS
- 6.1 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-83
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- DSF
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Aug 4, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
djangoproject Django djangoproject:django (from the name) | from 6.0 before 6.0.8; 6.0.8 not affected; from 5.2 before 5.2.17; 5.2.17 not affected | CNA record |
djangoproject django djangoproject:django | from 5.2 before 5.2.17; from 6.0 before 6.0.8 | NVD |
References
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/vendor-advisory, patch
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announcemailing-list
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/47511a21026cdd721d8fbf8571cc079bc38bb46dpatch
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/5a260d309a4c8010c2ebda24eb758a5d95e2508apatch
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/13debb622a32720bda1bccda7622fd14fbf3931bpatch
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/b9adb81339cc418f8f56b1050cca6dfec3ab6349patch
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/04/security-releases/vendor-advisory
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