Low severity · published Feb 4, 2026
CVE-2026-25517
Wagtail has improper permission handling on admin preview endpoints
2.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. Prior to versions 6.3.6, 7.0.4, 7.1.3, 7.2.2, and 7.3, due to a missing permission check on the preview endpoints, a user with access to the Wagtail admin and knowledge of a model's fields can craft a form submission to obtain a preview rendering of any page, snippet or site setting object for which previews are enabled, consisting of any data of the user's choosing. The existing data of the object itself is not exposed, but depending on the nature of the template being rendered, this may expose other database contents that would otherwise only be accessible to users with edit access over the model. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. This issue has been patched in versions 6.3.6, 7.0.4, 7.1.3, 7.2.2, and 7.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WA
wagtail · wagtail
< 6.3.6; >= 6.4rc1, < 7.0.4; >= 7.1rc1, < 7.1.3; >= 7.2rc1, < 7.2.2; = 7.3rc1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25517
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-25517
Patch
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/01fd3477365a193e6a8270311defb76e890d2719
Patch
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/5f09b6da61e779b0e8499bdbba52bf2f7bd3241f
Patch
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/73f070dbefbd3b39ea6649ce36bd2d2a6eef2190
Patch
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/7dfe8de5f8b3f112c73c87b6729197db16454915
Patch
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/commit/dd824023a031f1b82a6b6f83a97a5c73391b7c03
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/advisories/GHSA-4qvv-g3vr-m348
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