PT-2015-5682 · Django Software Foundation · Django

Eran Rundstein · Published 2015-03-12 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2015-2241

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Django versions prior to 1.7.6 Django versions prior to 1.8b2

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the contents function in admin/helpers.py, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a model attribute in ModelAdmin.readonly fields, as demonstrated by an @property. This enables attackers to execute malicious scripts on the client-side.

Recommendations For Django versions prior to 1.7.6, update to version 1.7.6 or later to resolve the issue. For Django versions prior to 1.8b2, update to version 1.8b2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-2241

GHSA-6565-FG86-6JCX

MGASA-2015-0127

PYSEC-2015-8

Affected Products

Django

References · 20

• 🔥 https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24461 · Exploit
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6565-fg86-6jcx · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2241 · Security Note
• https://djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/09/security-releases · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0127 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0127.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2015-8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/django/django · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/82c9169077a066995e3b00aac551bf1c8a89d98a · Note
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/2654e1b93923bac55f12b4e66c5e39b16695ace5 · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2015-8.yaml · Note