CVE-2020-11001

Advisory

Affected versions of Wagtail are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) on the page revision comparison view within the Wagtail admin interface. A user with a limited-permission editor account for the Wagtail admin could potentially craft a page revision history that, when viewed by a user with higher privileges, could perform actions with that user's credentials. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access tothe Wagtail admin.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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* Fix: CVE-2020-11001 - prevent XSS attack via page revision comparison view (Vlad Gerasimenko, Matt Westcott)

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11001
• https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/advisories/GHSA-v2wc-pfq2-5cm6
• https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases/tag/v2.8.1
• https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/61045ceefea114c40ac4b680af58990dbe732389