TI-2024-23298 Aliases CVE-2024-35228 GHSA-xxfm-vmcf-g33f

Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions in Wagtail

LOW 25CWE-280Published 2024-05-30 · Updated 2024-08-02

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · High · None
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. Due to an improperly applied permission check in the `wagtail.contrib.settings` module, a user with access to the Wagtail admin and knowledge of the URL of the edit view for a settings model can access and update that setting, even when they have not been granted permission over the model. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 6.0.5 and 6.1.2. Wagtail releases prior to 6.0 are unaffected. Users are advised to upgrade. Site owners who are unable to upgrade to a patched version can avoid the vulnerability in `ModelViewSet` by registering the model as a snippet instead. No workaround is available for `wagtail.contrib.settings`.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00332 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed wagtail (wagtail): 6.0.5, 6.1.2wagtail (PyPI): 6.0.5, 6.1.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
wagtail	wagtail	6.0.0 to before 6.0.5; 6.1.0 to before 6.1.2	6.0.5, 6.1.2	Patch available	CNA
—	wagtail (PyPI)	6.0.0 to before 6.0.5	6.0.5	Patch available	GHSA-xxfm-vmcf-g33f
—	wagtail (PyPI)	6.1.0 to before 6.1.2	6.1.2	Patch available	GHSA-xxfm-vmcf-g33f

wagtail Vendorwagtail Affected 6.0.0 to before 6.0.5; 6.1.0 to before 6.1.2 Fixed in 6.0.5, 6.1.2 Patch available CNA
wagtail (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 6.0.0 to before 6.0.5 Fixed in 6.0.5 Patch available GHSA-xxfm-vmcf-g33f
wagtail (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 6.1.0 to before 6.1.2 Fixed in 6.1.2 Patch available GHSA-xxfm-vmcf-g33f

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:torchbox:wagtail::::::::	—	—	wagtail

cpe:2.3:a:torchbox:wagtail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·wagtail

Remediation

Fix · CNA wagtail (wagtail) Fixed in 6.0.5, 6.1.2
Fix · GHSA-xxfm-vmcf-g33f wagtail (PyPI) Fixed in 6.0.5 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-xxfm-vmcf-g33f wagtail (PyPI) Fixed in 6.1.2 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-35228
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xxfm-vmcf-g33f

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35228

Other 3

TI-2026-39163 Wagtail: Reflected XSS in dynamic image URL generator view CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3
TI-2020-08875 Possible XSS attack in Wagtail CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8
TI-2023-13342 Wagtail vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting attack via ModelAdmin views CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
TI-2026-32180 Wagtail: Improper restriction handling on Documents and Images API CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
TI-2026-22558 Wagtail: Improper escaping of HTML (Cross-site Scripting) in simple_translation admin interface CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
TI-2026-22557 Wagtail: Improper escaping of HTML (Cross-site Scripting) on TableBlock class attributes CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1

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Sources

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