CVE-2026-123820: Wagtail: Improper restriction handling on descendant collections in Documents and Images API

Published Nov 9, 2026
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Updated

Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django. Prior to 7.0.9, 7.3.4, 7.4.3, and 8.0rc2, the Wagtail Documents and Images API V2 excludes directly restricted collections but fails to exclude their descendant collections, even though descendants inherit ancestor view restrictions. An API user can therefore list the filenames and names of documents and images stored in descendant collections that should remain private. This issue is fixed in versions 7.0.9, 7.3.4, 7.4.3, and 8.0rc2.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Wagtail Wagtail<7.0.9, <7.3.4, <7.4.3, <8.0rc2

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Wagtail to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.0.9
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Wagtail to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.3.4
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Wagtail to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.4.3
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade Wagtail to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 8.0rc2

Event History

Nov 9, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·09:24 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·09:24 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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