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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-15920 EUVD-2026-52750GHSA-8rmj-xgq5-w9qm

Potential cross-site scripting via URLField values in the admin

Published Aug 4, 2026 · Updated Aug 4, 2026 · Assigned by DSF

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
djangoproject Django 6.0 – < 6.0.8, 5.2 – < 5.2.17 6.0.8

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 python-django 3:5.2.17-1 —
Debian 13 python-django No fix yet —
Debian 12 python-django 3:3.2.25-0+deb12u4 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS python-django No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 python-Django 4.2.11-150600.3.65.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3503-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Django 6.0.8-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11464-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Django4 4.2.30-5.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11465-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-Django5 5.2.17-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11491-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 python-Django 5.2.4-bp160.11.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21543-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 py3-django 5.2.17-r0 —

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