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SCA: security update for django-cms (GHSA-8jj7-4v57-frf5)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 446251

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - django CMS is an easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise content management system powered by
 Django. Prior to 5.0.8, the move_plugin endpoint in cms/admin/placeholderadmin.py accepts an attacker-
 controlled plugin_parent value without rejecting a plugin’s own identifier or a descendant identifier. A
 staff user with plugin-change permission under CMS_PERMISSION can create a parent_id cycle in the plugin
 tree. The _get_descendants_cte and _get_ancestors_cte queries in cms/models/pluginmodel.py have no cycle
 guard, so get_descendants() and later rendering, copy, or delete operations can recurse indefinitely or
 reach a database recursion limit, corrupting the tree and consuming request workers. This issue is fixed
 in versions 5.0.8. (CVE-2026-54623)

Solution

Update the django-cms library and its related packages to version 5.0.8 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8jj7-4v57-frf5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 446251

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/25/2026

Updated: 8/25/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-54623

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-54623