Wagtail CMS up to 7.0.6/7.3.1 insufficient privileges

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Wagtail CMS up to 7.0.6/7.3.1. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to insufficient privileges. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-44197. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Wagtail CMS up to 7.0.6/7.3.1. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficient privileges vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-280. The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to access resources or functionality as specified by their permissions. This may cause it to follow unexpected code paths that may leave the product in an invalid state. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. Prior to 7.0.7, 7.3.2, and 7.4, a CMS user without the ability to edit a page could access revisions of the page through the revision compare view if they knew the primary key of two revisions. This could potentially result in disclosure of sensitive information. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.7, 7.3.2, and 7.4.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-44197 since 05/05/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 7.0.7 or 7.3.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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CNA Base Score: 6.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Insufficient privileges
CWE: CWE-280 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: CMS 7.0.7/7.3.2

Timelineinfo

05/05/2026 CVE reserved
05/11/2026 +6 days Advisory disclosed
05/11/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
05/11/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-44197 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-44197
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-362639

Entryinfo

Created: 05/11/2026 18:14
Changes: 05/11/2026 18:14 (63)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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