CVE-2013-6044: Djangoproject Django

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The is_safe_url function in utils/http.py in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.6, 1.5.x before 1.5.2, and 1.6 before beta 2 treats a URL's scheme as safe even if it is not HTTP or HTTPS, which might introduce cross-site scripting (XSS) or other vulnerabilities into Django applications that use this function, as demonstrated by "the login view in django.contrib.auth.views" and the javascript: scheme.

Affected products

• Djangoproject Django: version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.5 only; version 1.5 only; …

Published 2013-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.