In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with `DEBUG = True` (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings.

Affected Packages

PyPI Django

Affected versions: 1.10a1 (fixed in 1.10.8)

PyPI Django

Affected versions: 1.11a1 (fixed in 1.11.5)

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-12794

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-9r8w-6x8c-6jr9

Published

January 4, 2019 5:50 PM

Last Modified

September 18, 2024 3:51 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

PyPI

Primary Package

Django

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 3, 2025 6:33 AM

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