GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-4qvv-g3vr-m348 Wagtail has improper permission handling on admin preview endpoints

MEDIUM Published 2026-02-03 Modified 2026-02-04 Official page ↗
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