Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges Affecting wagtail package, versions [,7.0.9)[7.1rc1, 7.3.4)[7.4rc1, 7.4.3)[8.0rc1, 8.0rc2)
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- published23 Aug 2026
- disclosed20 Aug 2026
- creditxuliang
Introduced: 20 Aug 2026
NewCVE-2026-55468 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade wagtail to version 7.0.9, 7.3.4, 7.4.3, 8.0rc2 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 via the PagesAdminAPIViewSet class. An attacker can access sensitive page field contents by sending authenticated API requests to endpoints that expose fields declared in api_fields.
Note: This is only exploitable if the attacker has access to the Wagtail admin interface.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by overriding the get_base_queryset method on PagesAdminAPIViewSet to restrict queryset results based on user permissions.