CVE-2013-4249

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AdminURLFieldWidget widget in contrib/admin/widgets.py in Django 1.5.x before 1.5.2 and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URLField.

Affected products

Django: 1.5, 1.5-alpha, 1.5-beta, 1.5.1, 1.6-beta1

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/369
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/411
http://secunia.com/advisories/54476
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028915
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86438
https://github.com/django/django/commit/90363e388c61874add3f3557ee654a996ec75d78
https://github.com/django/django/commit/cbe6d5568f4f5053ed7228ca3c3d0cce77cf9560
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/aug/13/security-releases-issued
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/369
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/411
http://secunia.com/advisories/54476
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028915

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