GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-4qvv-g3vr-m348 Wagtail has improper permission handling on admin preview endpoints
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-25517
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- wagtail
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
- Reviewed
- 2026-02-03
Affected packages
• PyPI wagtail: < 6.3.6 → fixed in 6.3.6
• PyPI wagtail: >= 6.4rc1, < 7.0.4 → fixed in 7.0.4
• PyPI wagtail: >= 7.1rc1, < 7.1.3 → fixed in 7.1.3
• PyPI wagtail: >= 7.2rc1, < 7.2.2 → fixed in 7.2.2
• PyPI wagtail: >= 7.3rc1, < 7.3 → fixed in 7.3
Description
Impact
Due to a missing permission check on the preview endpoints, a user with access to the Wagtail admin and knowledge of a model's fields can craft a form submission to obtain a preview rendering of any page, snippet or site setting object for which previews are enabled, consisting of any data of the user's choosing. The existing data of the object itself is not exposed, but depending on the nature of the template being rendered, this may expose other database contents that would otherwise only be accessible to users with edit access over the model. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.
Patches
Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 6.3.6, 7.0.4, 7.1.3 and 7.2.2. The new 7.3 feature release also incorporates this fix.
Workarounds
No workaround is available.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to @thxtech for reporting this issue.
For more information
If there are any questions or comments about this advisory:
• Visit Wagtail's support channels
• Send an email to [email protected] (view our security policy for more information).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-25517 Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/advisories/GHSA-4qvv-g3vr-m348 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25517 advisory
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/01fd3477365a193e6a8270311defb76e890d2719 web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/5f09b6da61e779b0e8499bdbba52bf2f7bd3241f web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/73f070dbefbd3b39ea6649ce36bd2d2a6eef2190 web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/7dfe8de5f8b3f112c73c87b6729197db16454915 web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/dd824023a031f1b82a6b6f83a97a5c73391b7c03 web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail package
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases/tag/v6.3.6 web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases/tag/v7.0.4 web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases/tag/v7.1.3 web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases/tag/v7.2.2 web
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases/tag/v7.3 web