CVE-2026-54623
HIGH
7,1
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: low
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: low
Availability: high
Description
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django CMS is an easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise content management system powered by Django. Prior to 5.0.8, the move_plugin endpoint in cms/admin/placeholderadmin.py accepts an attacker-controlled plugin_parent value without rejecting a plugin’s own identifier or a descendant identifier. A staff user with plugin-change permission under CMS_PERMISSION can create a parent_id cycle in the plugin tree. The _get_descendants_cte and _get_ancestors_cte queries in cms/models/pluginmodel.py have no cycle guard, so get_descendants() and later rendering, copy, or delete operations can recurse indefinitely or reach a database recursion limit, corrupting the tree and consuming request workers. This issue is fixed in versions 5.0.8.
674
Uncontrolled Recursion
DraftCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Confidentiality
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Read Application Data
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
835
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
IncompleteCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Dos: Amplification
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/commit/7642a98ab3170793c0b27b4125dd1f3…
https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/8645
https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/releases/tag/5.0.8
https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-8jj7-4v57-frf5