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
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WAGTAIL-16624531
  • published10 May 2026
  • disclosed8 May 2026
  • creditSanjok Karki

Introduced: 8 May 2026

CVE-2026-44200  (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 on page copy. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to restricted page content by copying pages from areas they do not have permission to access into areas where they do have access.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1