Cross-site scripting in Django - CVE-2020-13596
Published: June 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU28953
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13596
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in Query parameters generated by the Django admin "ForeignKeyRawIdWidget". A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
Django
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Fedora
py3-django (Alpine package)
python-django (Debian package)
python-django
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Fedora
py3-django (Alpine package)
python-django (Debian package)
python-django
How to mitigate CVE-2020-13596
Install updates from vendor's website.
Django - addressed in versions 2.2.13, 3.0.7
python-django (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:1.10.7-2+deb9u9, 1:1.11.29-1~deb10u1
python-django - addressed in versions 2.2.13-1.el8, 2.2.13-1.fc31, 3.0.7-1.fc32
python-django (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:1.10.7-2+deb9u9, 1:1.11.29-1~deb10u1
python-django - addressed in versions 2.2.13-1.el8, 2.2.13-1.fc31, 3.0.7-1.fc32