CVE-2026-15920

An issue was discovered in Django 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 6.0 before 6.0.8. `django.contrib.admin.utils.display_for_field()` renders `URLField` values as clickable links in the admin without validating the URL. A value stored with an unsafe scheme is displayed as a link on changelist and read-only admin pages, which allows cross-site scripting against staff users who click the link. Exploitation requires the unsafe value to already be stored in the database. `URLField` validation through a `ModelForm` or the admin rejects unsafe schemes, so this affects applications that persist `URLField` data without running model validation, for example through direct queryset writes, deserialization, or bulk import of untrusted input. Django would like to thank Egor Saltykov for reporting this issue.

CVSS 4.0

5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-83

Published

2026-08-04

Modified

2026-10-24

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-24

Affected

• djangoproject:django

References

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/13debb622a32720bda1bccda7622fd14fbf3931b
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/47511a21026cdd721d8fbf8571cc079bc38bb46d
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/5a260d309a4c8010c2ebda24eb758a5d95e2508a
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/b9adb81339cc418f8f56b1050cca6dfec3ab6349

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