CVE-2021-29434
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-04-19 18:45
Modified
2024-08-03 22:02
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
Improper validation of URLs ('Cross-site Scripting') in Wagtail rich text fields
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/advisories/GHSA-wq5h-f9p5-q7fxMitigation, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://pypi.org/project/wagtail/Product, Third Party Advisory
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