CVE-2026-15920

Summary

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

Details

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.

References

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/13debb622a32720bda1bccda7622fd14fbf3931b
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/47511a21026cdd721d8fbf8571cc079bc38bb46d
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/5a260d309a4c8010c2ebda24eb758a5d95e2508a
• https://github.com/django/django/commit/b9adb81339cc418f8f56b1050cca6dfec3ab6349
• https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
• https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/04/security-releases/