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CVE-2026-15920: Potential cross-site scripting via URLField values in the admin

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-04 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-83

Description

An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 6.0 before 6.0.8. `django.contrib.admin.utils.display_for_field()` renders `URLField` values as clickable links in the admin without validating the URL. A value stored with an unsafe scheme is displayed as a link on changelist and read-only admin pages, which allows cross-site scripting against staff users who click the link. Exploitation requires the unsafe value to already be stored in the database. `URLField` validation through a `ModelForm` or the admin rejects unsafe schemes, so this affects applications that persist `URLField` data without running model validation, for example through direct queryset writes, deserialization, or bulk import of untrusted input. Django would like to thank Egor Saltykov for reporting this issue.

Affected products

• Django: from 5.2 before 5.2.17; from 6.0 before 6.0.8 — fixed in 5.2.17, 6.0.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Django 5.2.17, 6.0.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/13debb622a32720bda1bccda7622fd14fbf3931b
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/47511a21026cdd721d8fbf8571cc079bc38bb46d
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/5a260d309a4c8010c2ebda24eb758a5d95e2508a
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/b9adb81339cc418f8f56b1050cca6dfec3ab6349
• https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/04/security-releases/

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