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FreeBSD: VID-e1d3a580-cd8b-11ea-bad0-08002728f74c (CVE-2020-15118): Wagtail -- XSS vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 24, 2020
Added
Jul 25, 2020
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

GitHub Advisory Database: When a form page type is made available to Wagtail editors through the wagtail.contrib.forms app, and the page template is built using Django's standard form rendering helpers such as form.as_p (as directed in the documentation), any HTML tags used within a form field's help text will be rendered unescaped in the page. Allowing HTML within help text is an intentional design decision by Django; however, as a matter of policy Wagtail does not allow editors to insert arbitrary HTML by default, as this could potentially be used to carry out cross-site scripting attacks, including privilege escalation. This functionality should therefore not have been made available to editor-level users. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.

Solutions

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