Description
django CMS is an easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise content management system powered by Django. Prior to 5.0.8, the move_plugin endpoint in cms/admin/placeholderadmin.py accepts an attacker-controlled plugin_parent value without rejecting a plugin’s own identifier or a descendant identifier. A staff user with plugin-change permission under CMS_PERMISSION can create a parent_id cycle in the plugin tree. The _get_descendants_cte and _get_ancestors_cte queries in cms/models/pluginmodel.py have no cycle guard, so get_descendants() and later rendering, copy, or delete operations can recurse indefinitely or reach a database recursion limit, corrupting the tree and consuming request workers. This issue is fixed in versions 5.0.8.
Published: 2026-08-20
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Django-cms
Django-cms django Cms
Vendors & Products Django-cms
Django-cms django Cms

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:15:00 +0000

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Description django CMS is an easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise content management system powered by Django. Prior to 5.0.8, the move_plugin endpoint in cms/admin/placeholderadmin.py accepts an attacker-controlled plugin_parent value without rejecting a plugin’s own identifier or a descendant identifier. A staff user with plugin-change permission under CMS_PERMISSION can create a parent_id cycle in the plugin tree. The _get_descendants_cte and _get_ancestors_cte queries in cms/models/pluginmodel.py have no cycle guard, so get_descendants() and later rendering, copy, or delete operations can recurse indefinitely or reach a database recursion limit, corrupting the tree and consuming request workers. This issue is fixed in versions 5.0.8.
Title django CMS: Plugin move endpoint allows cyclic reparenting (DoS)
Weaknesses CWE-674
CWE-835
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H'}


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Django-cms Django Cms
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-20T18:47:19.789Z

Reserved: 2026-06-15T20:07:02.184Z

Link: CVE-2026-54623

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-20T18:46:04.145Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-20T18:16:28.013

Modified: 2026-08-20T19:16:55.480

Link: CVE-2026-54623

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-20T19:30:05Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-674

    Uncontrolled Recursion

  • CWE-835

    Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')