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Django XSS Vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 7, 2024

Package

pip django (pip)

Affected versions

< 1.8.10
>= 1.9, < 1.9.3

Patched versions

1.8.10
1.9.3

Description

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by http://mysite.example.com\@attacker.com.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 8, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jul 31, 2023
Last updated May 7, 2024

Severity

High
7.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-2512

GHSA ID

GHSA-pw27-w7w4-9qc7

Source code

Credits

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