HIGH7.5

PYSEC-2026-2049

Denial of service via regular expression

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-2049 — wiki: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'wiki>=0.10.1'

Details

### Impact

All historical installations of django-wiki are vulnerable to maliciously crafted article content, that can cause severe use of server CPU through a regular expression loop.

### Patches

### Workarounds

Close off access to create and edit articles by anonymous users.

### References _Are there any links users can visit to find out more?_

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/wiki

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.10.1

Fixpip install --upgrade 'wiki>=0.10.1'

References

https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/security/advisories/GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h[WEB]
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28865[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/commit/8e280fd6c0bd27ce847c67b2d216c6cbf920f88c[WEB]
https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki[PACKAGE]
https://pypi.org/project/wiki[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h[ADVISORY]