CVE-2026-54623
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
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Published: Aug 20, 2026 · Last modified: Aug 20, 2026 · CWE-674 · CWE-835
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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.
- github.comhttps://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/commit/7642a98ab3170793c0b27b4125dd1f3d318b8a1c
- github.comhttps://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/8645
- github.comhttps://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/releases/tag/5.0.8
- github.comhttps://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-8jj7-4v57-frf5