🛡️ CVE-2026-54259 — wagtail

🟡 CVSS 4.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-280 OSV
4.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. In versions prior to 7.0.8, 7.3.3 and 7.4.2, the Documents and Images chooser's chosen endpoint incorrectly listed items for which the user has not been granted choose permission. A user with access to the Wagtail admin could see the filename and name and URLs of documents and images in those collections. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. This issue has been fixed in versions 7.0.8, 7.3.3, and 7.4.2.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2026-54259 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wagtail (from 7.4 up to 7.4.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 July 2026 and last revised on 3 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Advisory)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-280
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-01
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wagtail 7.4 7.4.2

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