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CVE-2026-54623 Detail

Description

django CMS is an easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise content management system powered by Django. Prior to 5.0.8, the move_plugin endpoint in cms/admin/placeholderadmin.py accepts an attacker-controlled plugin_parent value without rejecting a plugin’s own identifier or a descendant identifier. A staff user with plugin-change permission under CMS_PERMISSION can create a parent_id cycle in the plugin tree. The _get_descendants_cte and _get_ancestors_cte queries in cms/models/pluginmodel.py have no cycle guard, so get_descendants() and later rendering, copy, or delete operations can recurse indefinitely or reach a database recursion limit, corrupting the tree and consuming request workers. This issue is fixed in versions 5.0.8.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/commit/7642a98ab3170793c0b27b4125dd1f3d318b8a1c GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/8645 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/releases/tag/5.0.8 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-8jj7-4v57-frf5 GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion GitHub, Inc.  
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-54623
NVD Published Date:
08/20/2026
NVD Last Modified:
08/20/2026
Source:
GitHub, Inc.