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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-45388 Detail

Disputed     

Description

Wagtail CMS 6.4.1 is vulnerable to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in the document upload functionality. Attackers can inject malicious code inside a PDF file. When a user clicks the document in the CMS interface, the payload executes. NOTE: this is disputed by the Supplier because "It has been well documented that when serving uploaded files using a method outside of Wagtail (which admittedly is the default), it requires additional configuration from the developer, because Wagtail cannot control how these are served. ... For example, if a Wagtail instance is configured to upload files into AWS S3, Wagtail cannot control the permissions on how they're served, nor any headers used when serving them (a limitation of S3)."


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/deployment/under_the_hood.html#documents MITRE
https://github.com/echoBRT/Wagtail-CMS-XSS/ CISA-ADP, MITRE
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/discussions/12617 MITRE
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/pull/12672 MITRE
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/wiki/Security-team MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CISA-ADP  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-45388
NVD Published Date:
05/07/2025
NVD Last Modified:
05/09/2025
Source:
MITRE