MEDIUM 4.3 GitHub
CVE-2026-54259
Wagtail: Improper restriction handling on Documents and Images chosen endpoints
### Impact
The Documents and Images chooser's chosen endpoint incorrectly listed items for which the user has not been granted choose permission. A user with access to the Wagtail admin could see the filename and name and URLs of documents and images in those collections.
The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.
### Patches
Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.8, 7.3.3, 7.4.2.
### Workarounds
N/A
### Acknowledgements
Affected Products
- pip/wagtail < 7.0.8
- pip/wagtail >= 7.1, < 7.3.3
- pip/wagtail >= 7.4, < 7.4.2
References
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h54r-xq46-qwqm
- https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/advisories/GHSA-h54r-xq46-qwqm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54259
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/wagtail/PYSEC-2026-612.yaml
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3 was published on 2026-08-20 via GitHub. Affected: pip/wagtail < 7.0.8, pip/wagtail >= 7.1, < 7.3.3, pip/wagtail >= 7.4, < 7.4.2.
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