Wagtail has improper permission handling when viewing page history

CVE-2026-44198 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

Impact

A CMS user without the ability to edit a page could still access the history report for the page, potentially resulting in disclosure of sensitive information.

Patches

Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.7 and 7.3.2. The new 7.4 LTS feature release also incorporates this fix.

Workarounds

No workaround is available.

Acknowledgements

Wagtail thanks Seoyoung Kang @seoyoung-kang who is from AhnLab and also an independent security researcher for reporting this issue.

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Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
Advisory on GitHub
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Repository advisory
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Source code
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Published (advisory)
2026-05-08 20:19:08 UTC
Updated
2026-06-08 19:55:32 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2026-05-08 20:19:08 UTC
NVD published
2026-05-11

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.03% 8.67%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
4.3 3.1 —
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-c4mr-889m-vgf6 ↗
CVE CVE-2026-44198 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-280 Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges

Credits

  • RealOrangeOne (remediation_developer)
  • seoyoung-kang (reporter)

Affected packages (2)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
pip wagtail < 7.0.7 7.0.7 —
pip wagtail >= 7.1, < 7.3.2 7.3.2 —

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence