Affected: wagtail

Wagtail is a Django content management system. In affected versions of Wagtail, when saving the contents of a rich text field in the admin interface, Wagtail does not apply server-side checks to ensure that link URLs use a valid protocol. A malicious user with access to the admin interface could thus craft a POST request to publish content with `javascript:` URLs containing arbitrary code. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin. See referenced GitHub advisory for additional details, including a workaround. Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 2.11.7 (for the LTS 2.11 branch) and Wagtail 2.12.4 (for the current 2.12 branch).

Affected: PyPI: wagtail

### Impact When saving the contents of a rich text field in the admin interface, Wagtail does not apply server-side checks to ensure that link URLs use a valid protocol. A malicious user with access to the admin interface could thus craft a POST request to publish content with `javascript:` URLs containing arbitrary code. The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.

### Patches Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 2.11.7 (for the LTS 2.11 branch) and Wagtail 2.12.4 (for the current 2.12 branch).

### Workarounds For sites that cannot easily upgrade to a current supported version, the vulnerability can be patched by adding the following code to a `wagtail_hooks.py` module in any installed app:

```python from draftjs_exporter.dom import DOM from wagtail.admin.rich_text.converters.html_to_contentstate import ExternalLinkElementHandler, PageLinkElementHandler from wagtail.core import hooks from wagtail.core.whitelist import check_url

def link_entity(props): id_ = props.get('id') link_props = {}

if id_ is not None: link_props['linktype'] = 'page' link_props['id'] = id_ else: link_props['href'] = check_url(props.get('url'))

return DOM.create_element('a', link_props, props['children'])

@hooks.register('register_rich_text_features', order=1) def register_link(features): features.register_converter_rule('contentstate', 'link', { 'from_database_format': {…