CVE-2026-54623: Django-CMS

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

django CMS is an easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise content management system powered by Django. Prior to 5.0.8, the move_plugin endpoint in cms/admin/placeholderadmin.py accepts an attacker-controlled plugin_parent value without rejecting a plugin’s own identifier or a descendant identifier. A staff user with plugin-change permission under CMS_PERMISSION can create a parent_id cycle in the plugin tree. The _get_descendants_cte and _get_ancestors_cte queries in cms/models/pluginmodel.py have no cycle guard, so get_descendants() and later rendering, copy, or delete operations can recurse indefinitely or reach a database recursion limit, corrupting the tree and consuming request workers. This issue is fixed in versions 5.0.8.

Affected products

• Django-CMS Django-CMS: before 5.0.8 (fixed in 5.0.8)

Published 2026-08-20. Last modified 2026-09-18.