CVE-2013-4249 Django cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AdminURLFieldWidget widget

What is CVE-2013-4249?

CVE-2013-4249 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Djangoproject Django, published on 4 Oct 2013. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the AdminURLFieldWidget widget in contrib/admin/widgets.py in Django 1.5.x before 1.5.2 and 1.6.x before 1.6 beta 2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URLField.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4249?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including django. It affects 1 product.

Products include Djangoproject Django.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4249?

Upgrade django to 1.5.2 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2013-4249 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4249 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4249, GHSA-4894-5vqc-6r2r, MGASA-2013-0256, PYSEC-2013-19.