🛡️ CVE-2026-44197 — wagtail

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Wagtail has improper permission handling when comparing revisions

Impact

A CMS user without the ability to edit a page could access revisions of the page through the revision compare view if they knew the primary key of two revisions. This could potentially result in disclosure of sensitive information.

Patches

Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.7 and 7.3.2. The new 7.4 LTS feature release also incorporates this fix.

Workarounds

No workaround is available.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Seoyoung Kang @seoyoung-kang from AhnLab and an independent security researcher for reporting this issue.

For more information

If there are any questions or comments about this advisory:

  • Visit Wagtail's [support channels](https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/support.html)
  • Send an email to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) (view the [security policy](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/policy) for more information).

Affected software

CVE-2026-44197 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • unknown
  • wagtail (from 7.1 up to 7.3.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-11
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified N/A
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —
wagtail 7.1 7.3.2

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