mediumCVSS 4.3Vulnerability

CVE-2026-54259

### Impact The Documents and Images chooser's chosen endpoint incorrectly listed items for which the user has not been granted choose permission. A user with access to the Wagtail admin could see the filename and name and URLs of documents and images in those collections. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. ### Patches Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.8, 7.3.3, 7.4.2. ### Workarounds N/A ### Acknowledgements Many thanks to @harshakshit for reporting this issue. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Visit Wagtail's [support channels](https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/support.html) * Email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) (view our [security policy](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/policy) for more information).

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-h54r-xq46-qwqm
severity
medium
summary
Wagtail: Improper restriction handling on Documents and Images chosen endpoints
cvss_score
4.3
cve_id
CVE-2026-54259
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
is_ghsa_only
false
ghsa_published
2026-08-20T18:40:09Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h54r-xq46-qwqm
ghsa_updated
2026-08-20T18:40:09Z

Related Entities (4)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]pip/wagtail

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]pip/wagtail

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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