Wagtail up to 7.0.7/7.3.2/7.4.1 insufficient permissions or privileges

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A vulnerability was found in Wagtail up to 7.0.7/7.3.2/7.4.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Executing a manipulation can lead to insufficient permissions or privileges. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-54259. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Wagtail up to 7.0.7/7.3.2/7.4.1. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficient permissions or privileges vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. In versions prior to 7.0.8, 7.3.3 and 7.4.2, the Documents and Images chooser's chosen endpoint incorrectly listed items for which the user has not been granted choose permission. A user with access to the Wagtail admin could see the filename and name and URLs of documents and images in those collections. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. This issue has been fixed in versions 7.0.8, 7.3.3, and 7.4.2.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-54259 since 06/12/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1222 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 7.0.8, 7.3.3 or 7.4.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Wagtail

Version

• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.7
• 7.3.0
• 7.3.1
• 7.3.2
• 7.4.0
• 7.4.1

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• Product: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/

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