CVE-2016-2512: Djangoproject Django

High severity, CVSS 7.4. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The utils.http.is_safe_url function in Django before 1.8.10 and 1.9.x before 1.9.3 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks or possibly conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a URL containing basic authentication, as demonstrated by http://mysite.example.com\@attacker.com.

Affected products

• Djangoproject Django: version 1.8.9 only; version 1.9 only; version 1.9.1 only; version 1.9.2 only

Published 2016-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.