CVE-2026-54623

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.
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Published : 2026-08-20 18:16

Updated : 2026-08-20 19:16


NVD link : CVE-2026-54623

Mitre link : CVE-2026-54623

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-54623


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CWE
CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion

CWE-835

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')