CVE-2026-63003: django CMS: Broken access control in page *Duplicate* allows reading the content of any page (cross-site / restriction bypass)
The only authorization gate on the duplicate flow is PageAdmin.has_add_permission,
which checks user_can_add_page(user, site) / user_can_add_subpage(...) — i.e. “may
this user create a page at all”. Nothing checks the user’s relationship to the page being
copied:
cms/admin/forms.py—DuplicatePageForm.source = ModelChoiceField(queryset=Page.objects.all(), widget=HiddenInput())spans every page in the database, on every site.cms/admin/forms.py—AddPageForm.__init__returns early when thesourcewidget is hidden, so the queryset is never narrowed to the user’s site/subtree.cms/admin/forms.py—AddPageForm.clean()validates only URL uniqueness;sourceis never validated against the user.cms/admin/pageadmin.py—duplicate()seedssourcefrom the URL only on GET; on POST the value comes entirely from the request body.cms/admin/forms.py—AddPageForm.save()→from_source()performssource.copy(..., permissions=False)and copies every placeholder and all plugins ofsourceinto a new page on the attacker’s site. Becausepermissions=Falsedrops the source’s view restrictions, the resulting copy is fully readable by the attacker.
This crosses a real privilege boundary: a staff user restricted (via CMS_PERMISSION) to
their own site or subtree can exfiltrate the content of restricted pages and of pages
belonging to other tenants.
Read-back is trivial (verified): the copy is created on the attacker’s site and, because
copy(..., permissions=False) strips the source’s view restrictions, the new page is
unrestricted. user_can_view_page() then returns True for it (unrestricted +
PUBLIC_FOR), so the attacker — or even an anonymous visitor — can read the duplicated
content directly from the front end. No further permission on the new page is required.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-6x92-6vx4-5fwr
- github.com/django-cms/django-cms/commit/3e1ccf7573eb1a74ebbbfaaa812c1f5cadf14e6c
- github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/8713
- github.com/django-cms/django-cms/releases/tag/5.0.9
- github.com/django-cms/django-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-6x92-6vx4-5fwr
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63003
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