Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges Affecting wagtail package, versions [,7.0.7)[7.1rc1, 7.3.2)[7.4rc1, 7.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WAGTAIL-16624530
  • published10 May 2026
  • disclosed8 May 2026
  • creditVishal Shukla

Introduced: 8 May 2026

CVE-2026-44199  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-280  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wagtail to version 7.0.7, 7.3.2, 7.4 or higher.

Overview

wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges in the deletion of form submissions. A user can remove other users' form submissions without proper authorization by sending malicious requests.

Note: This is only exploitable if the attacker has access to the admin interface.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1