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CVE-2026-15920

📛 CVE Title

Potential cross-site scripting via URLField values in the admin

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.

Overview

State
PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA)
DSF
CVSS severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
CVSS 5.1 / 10 5.1 5.1 / 10
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Effective score
5.1 / 10 MEDIUM source: CNA overview
CWE(s)
CWE-83
Reserved
2026-07-15
Published
2026-08-04 15:48 UTC
Last updated
2026-08-04 17:21 UTC
Source
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/15xxx/CVE-2026-15920.json

Affected products (1)

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
djangoproject Django 6.0 (affected), 6.0.8 (unaffected), 5.2 (affected), 5.2.17 (unaffected)

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The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-15920.json.

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