CVE-2017-12794

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 23.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-09-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with "DEBUG = True" (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings.

Affected products

Django: 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.10.5 (+7)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases/

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