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CVE-2026-61597: djust is vulnerable to stored/reflected XSS via javascript: URLs in built-in component template tags

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v4.0)
• 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: 2026-09-16 · updated 2026-09-30
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

djust provides Phoenix LiveView-style reactive server-side rendering for Django with Rust-powered performance. Prior to version 1.0.7, many djust built-in component template tags (`djust.components.templatetags.*`) render a developer/user-supplied URL into an `href` / `action` attribute, HTML-escaping it with `conditional_escape` but never validating the URL scheme. HTML escaping prevents attribute breakout but does not neutralize a `javascript:` URI (which needs no escapable characters), so a URL value of `javascript:alert(document.cookie)` lands verbatim in `<a href="javascript:alert(document.cookie)">` and executes in the victim's session on click. Version 1.0.7 contains a fix. As a workaround, do not pass user-controllable URLs to the affected built-in component tags; pre-validate URL schemes in application code before binding them to component arguments.

Affected products

• djust-org djust: before 1.0.7

References

• https://github.com/djust-org/djust/releases/tag/v1.0.7
• https://github.com/djust-org/djust/security/advisories/GHSA-4mf4-73j6-mvrw

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