Improper Control of Interaction Frequency Affecting django-smart-ratelimit package, versions [,0.8.4)
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- published2 Nov 2025
- disclosed1 Nov 2025
- creditZyrafaq
Introduced: 1 Nov 2025
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-799 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade django-smart-ratelimit to version 0.8.4 or higher.
Overview
django-smart-ratelimit is an A flexible and efficient rate limiting library for Django applications
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Control of Interaction Frequency due to reliance on hard-coded static and media in the RateLimitMiddleware and the rate_limit decorator. An attacker can send requests evading the enforcement of rate-limiting logic when customized prefixes are used for Django’s STATIC_URL and MEDIA_URL settings.