CVE-2023-28836

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-28836
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-03 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-04-10 13:45:00 UTC
DescriptionWagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. Starting in version 1.5 and prior to versions 4.1.4 and 4.2.2, a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists on ModelAdmin views within the Wagtail admin interface. A user with a limited-permission editor account for the Wagtail admin could potentially craft pages and documents that, when viewed by a user with higher privileges, could perform actions with that user's credentials. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin, and only affects sites with ModelAdmin enabled. For page, the vulnerability is in the "Choose a parent page" ModelAdmin view (`ChooseParentView`), available when managing pages via ModelAdmin. For documents, the vulnerability is in the ModelAdmin Inspect view (`InspectView`) when displaying document fields. Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 4.1.4 and Wagtail 4.2.2. Site owners who are unable to upgrade to the new versions can disable or override the corresponding functionality.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Torchbox Wagtail All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Enabling & customising InspectView — Wagtail Documentation 4.2.1 documentation MISC docs.wagtail.org
Stored XSS attack via ModelAdmin views · Advisory · wagtail/wagtail · GitHub MISC github.com
Release note for CVE-2023-28836 in 4.2.2 · wagtail/wagtail@bc84bf9 · GitHub MISC github.com
Release 4.1.4 · wagtail/wagtail · GitHub MISC github.com
Change ChooseParentView to use plain text breadcrumbs for page titles… · wagtail/wagtail@7141479 · GitHub MISC github.com
Change ChooseParentView to use plain text breadcrumbs for page titles… · wagtail/wagtail@5be2b1e · GitHub MISC github.com
Change ModelAdmin InspectView to escape any HTML from document titles · wagtail/wagtail@ff806ab · GitHub MISC github.com
Customising ChooseParentView — Wagtail Documentation 4.1.1 documentation MISC docs.wagtail.org
Release note for CVE-2023-28836 in 4.1.4 · wagtail/wagtail@eefc338 · GitHub MISC github.com
Change ModelAdmin InspectView to escape any HTML from document titles · wagtail/wagtail@158acef · GitHub MISC github.com
Release 4.2.2 · wagtail/wagtail · GitHub MISC github.com
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