Description
An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 6.0 before 6.0.8. `django.contrib.admin.utils.display_for_field()` renders `URLField` values as clickable links in the admin without validating the URL. A value stored with an unsafe scheme is displayed as a link on changelist and read-only admin pages, which allows cross-site scripting against staff users who click the link. Exploitation requires the unsafe value to already be stored in the database. `URLField` validation through a `ModelForm` or the admin rejects unsafe schemes, so this affects applications that persist `URLField` data without running model validation, for example through direct queryset writes, deserialization, or bulk import of untrusted input. Django would like to thank Egor Saltykov for reporting this issue.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
djangoproject Django
Default version status: unaffected
6.0 to < 6.0.8affected6.0.8unaffected5.2 to < 5.2.17affected5.2.17unaffected
References
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ ↗
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce ↗
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/47511a21026cdd721d8fbf8571cc079bc38bb46d ↗
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/5a260d309a4c8010c2ebda24eb758a5d95e2508a ↗
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/13debb622a32720bda1bccda7622fd14fbf3931b ↗
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/b9adb81339cc418f8f56b1050cca6dfec3ab6349 ↗
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/04/security-releases/ ↗