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PYSEC-2022-7

Details

Django CMS 3.7.3 does not validate the plugin_type parameter while generating error messages for an invalid plugin type, resulting in a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the web browser of the affected user.

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Affected packages

PyPI / django-cms

Introduced in: 3.4.0 Fixed in: 3.4.7

Fix pip install --upgrade 'django-cms>=3.4.7'

References

https://www.django-cms.org/en/blog/2020/07/22/django-cms-security-updates-1/ [ARTICLE]
https://sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/Django-CMS-Reflected-XSS-Vulnerability/ [ARTICLE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hx7c-qpfq-xcrp [ADVISORY]