GMS-2013-17: XSS in admin interface

August 13, 2013

The Django administrative application, django.contrib.admin, consider value of a URLField to be safe. Thus, when displaying it, Django does not escape it allowing an attacker to perform XSS in the administrative interface.

References

www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/aug/13/security-releases-issued/

Code Behaviors & Features

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