CVE Alert: CVE-2025-32873
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-32873
An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags().
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
5/8/2025, 4:17:18 AM
⚠️ CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedEPS Score: 0.00039 | Ranking EPS: 0.11112
References:
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
- https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
- https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/07/1
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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