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CVE-2026-55468 (GCVE-0-2026-55468)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-24 20:37 – Updated: 2026-08-24 20:37

Title

Wagtail: Improper restriction handling on Pages admin API

Summary

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. Prior to versions 7.0.9, 7.3.4, 7.4.3, and 8.0rc2 on their respective release lines, the internal Pages admin API returns page fields declared in api_fields without sufficient access control, allowing a user with Wagtail admin access to retrieve restricted draft and live page content. This issue is fixed in versions 7.0.9, 7.3.4, 7.4.3, and 8.0rc2.

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-280 - Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/advis…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/5608cfb…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/aef9355…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/d99d2be…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/e2fa629…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
wagtail	wagtail	Affected: < 7.0.9 Affected: >= 7.1, < 7.3.4 Affected: >= 7.4, < 7.4.3 Affected: >= 8.0rc1, < 8.0rc2	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-55468

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-24 21:17 - Updated: 2026-08-24 21:17

Severity

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/5608cfb714a130412f862beab53c78de02b79975
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/aef935530d5289406ca325b42747af15f3b28ac4
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	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/advisories/GHSA-3vrh-m9w7-v94f

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-3VRH-M9W7-V94F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-20 18:42 – Updated: 2026-08-20 18:42

Summary

Wagtail: Improper restriction handling on Pages admin API

Details

Impact

The internal Pages admin API incorrectly returns page fields without access control when they are declared in api_fields. A user with access to the Wagtail admin can use this API to fetch draft and live page fields’ contents that are part of api_fields on the base page model (title, slug, seo_title, search_description), as well as all custom fields declared in api_fields.

The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.

Patches

Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.9, 7.3.4, 7.4.3 and 8.0rc2.

Workarounds

Site owners unable to upgrade can apply the fix by overriding the relevant method on PagesAdminAPIViewSet to patch all vulnerable admin API endpoints:

# wagtail_hooks.py or AppConfig.ready()

from wagtail.admin.api.views import PagesAdminAPIViewSet
from wagtail.permissions import page_permission_policy


def _restricted_get_base_queryset(self):
    return page_permission_policy.explorable_instances(self.request.user)

PagesAdminAPIViewSet.get_base_queryset = _restricted_get_base_queryset

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to xuliang@QAX for reporting this issue.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Visit Wagtail's support channels
Email us at security@wagtail.org (view our security policy for more information).

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


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

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Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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CVE-2026-55468 (GCVE-0-2026-55468)

FKIE_CVE-2026-55468

GHSA-3VRH-M9W7-V94F

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