Description
Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. In versions prior to 7.0.8, 7.3.3 and 7.4.2, an authenticated admin user can trigger expensive rendition processing with purposefully crafted filter specs resulting in potentially service degradation. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. This issue has been fixed in versions 7.0.8, 7.3.3, and 7.4.2.
Published: 2026-07-01
Score: 4.3 Medium
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KEV: No
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Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:45:00 +0000

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Description Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. In versions prior to 7.0.8, 7.3.3 and 7.4.2, an authenticated admin user can trigger expensive rendition processing with purposefully crafted filter specs resulting in potentially service degradation. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. This issue has been fixed in versions 7.0.8, 7.3.3, and 7.4.2.
Title Wagtail: Denial of service via unbounded filter specs in the image preview
Weaknesses CWE-400
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2026-07-01T21:08:24.820Z

Reserved: 2026-06-12T17:13:32.278Z

Link: CVE-2026-54260

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