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CVE-2024-28865: django-wiki denial of service via regular expression

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

django-wiki is a wiki system for Django. Installations of django-wiki prior to version 0.10.1 are vulnerable to maliciously crafted article content that can cause severe use of server CPU through a regular expression loop. Version 0.10.1 fixes this issue. As a workaround, close off access to create and edit articles by anonymous users.

Affected products

• django-wiki: before 0.10.1 — fixed in 0.10.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: django-wiki 0.10.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/commit/8e280fd6c0bd27ce847c67b2d216c6cbf920f88c
• https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/security/advisories/GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h
• https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/commit/8e280fd6c0bd27ce847c67b2d216c6cbf920f88c
• https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/security/advisories/GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h

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