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CVE-2026-54259

PyPI · wagtail

Summary

Wagtail: Improper restriction handling on Documents and Images chosen endpoints

Severity
medium
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
0.3% (p19)
CWE
CWE-280
Also known as
GHSA-h54r-xq46-qwqm
Published
2026-08-20
Updated
2026-08-20

Advisory details

Impact

The Documents and Images chooser's chosen endpoint incorrectly listed items for which the user has not been granted choose permission. A user with access to the Wagtail admin could see the filename and name and URLs of documents and images in those collections.

The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.

Patches

Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.8, 7.3.3, 7.4.2.

Workarounds

N/A

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to @harshakshit for reporting this issue.

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