CVE-2026-15920Potential cross-site scripting via URLField values in the admin

Description

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.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• Django security archive vendor-advisoryPatchVendor Advisory
• Django releases announcements mailing-listMailing List
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/47511a21026cdd721d8fbf8571cc079bc38bb46d patchPatch
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/5a260d309a4c8010c2ebda24eb758a5d95e2508a patchPatch
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/13debb622a32720bda1bccda7622fd14fbf3931b patchPatch
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/b9adb81339cc418f8f56b1050cca6dfec3ab6349 patchPatch
• Django security releases issued: 6.0.8 and 5.2.17 vendor-advisoryVendor Advisory