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CVE-2015-2241

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the contents function in admin/helpers.py in Django before 1.7.6 and 1.8 before 1.8b2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a model attribute in ModelAdmin.readonly_fields, as demonstrated by a @property.

Affected products

• Django: through 1.7.5; 1.8-beta1

References

• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73095
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24461
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/09/security-releases/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:109
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73095
• https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24461
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/mar/09/security-releases/

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