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medium 6.1

CVE-2008-2302 json

Django Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

published 2008-05-23 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-54qj-48vx-cr9f , PYSEC-2008-1 , EUVD-2008-0002

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the login form in the administration application in Django 0.91 before 0.91.2, 0.95 before 0.95.3, and 0.96 before 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URI of a certain previous request.

Patch / fix

  • pypi django 0.91.2, 0.95.3, 0.96.2, 1.1
  • python-django Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.96.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2302

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-2302 updated

Django: administration application XSS

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi django
>=0.91, <0.91.2
>=0.95, <0.95.3
>=0.96, <0.96.2
<1.1
0.91.2
0.95.3
0.96.2
1.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

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