CVE-2025-32873: Django has a denial-of-service possibility in strip_tags()
An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags().
References
- docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-8j24-cjrq-gr2m
- github.com/django/django
- github.com/django/django/commit/9f3419b519799d69f2aba70b9d25abe2e70d03e0
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django/PYSEC-2025-37.yaml
- groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32873
- www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases
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