An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags().
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Description | An issue was discovered in Django 4.2 before 4.2.21, 5.1 before 5.1.9, and 5.2 before 5.2.1. The django.utils.html.strip_tags() function is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service (slow performance) when processing inputs containing large sequences of incomplete HTML tags. The template filter striptags is also vulnerable, because it is built on top of strip_tags(). | |
Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2025-05-08T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-05-08T14:42:25.501Z
Reserved: 2025-04-11T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2025-32873

Updated: 2025-05-08T04:05:04.028Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-05-08T04:17:18.157
Modified: 2025-05-08T14:39:09.683
Link: CVE-2025-32873
