CVE-2016-6186

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the dismissChangeRelatedObjectPopup function in contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js in Django before 1.8.14, 1.9.x before 1.9.8, and 1.10.x before 1.10rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving unsafe usage of Element.innerHTML.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Django: through 1.8.13; 1.9, 1.9.0-rc1, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4 (+5)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137965/Django-3.3.0-Script-Insertion.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1594.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1595.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1596.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/53
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3622
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538947/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92058
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036338
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3039-1
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1869
https://github.com/django/django/commit/d03bf6fe4e9bf5b07de62c1a271c4b41a7d3d158

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