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CVE-2026-75526: django CMS: Stored XSS in edit-mode plugin exception rendering

August 20, 2026

When plugin rendering fails in edit mode, django CMS renders a cms-rendering-exception block so editors can see that a placeholder could not be rendered. Older code built that block’s heading by interpolating the exception message, placeholder/source strings, and the failing plugin’s short description directly into an HTML string, then returned the placeholder output as safe markup.

If an editor could store HTML in data used by a plugin’s get_short_description() (or in other values interpolated into the exception message), and that plugin later raised during edit-mode rendering, the payload was parsed as HTML in the staff user’s browser. This is a stored XSS condition in the CMS editing context.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-hvq6-2r72-p2x7
  • github.com/django-cms/django-cms/commit/b56a568844ff3702495945f73a31d0868285bf88
  • github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/8711
  • github.com/django-cms/django-cms/releases/tag/5.0.9
  • github.com/django-cms/django-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-hvq6-2r72-p2x7
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75526

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 5.0.8 before 5.0.9

Fixed versions

  • 5.0.9

Solution

Upgrade to version 5.0.9 or above.

Impact 4.4 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

pypi/django-cms/CVE-2026-75526.yml

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