CVE-2016-2512

HighCVSS 7.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.4/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Apr 8, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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