In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with "DEBUG = True" (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings.
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Source | ID | Title |
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GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9 | Django vulnerable to XSS on 500 pages |
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USN-3559-1 | Django vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T18:51:07.127Z
Reserved: 2017-08-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-12794

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-09-07T13:29:00.467
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-12794


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