CVE-2025-32873

medium · 5.3

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().

5.3

CVSS

13.6%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

96th

EPSS percentile

2025-05-08

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses

CWE-770

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
djangoproject	django	>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.21
djangoproject	django	>= 5.1, < 5.1.9
djangoproject	django	5.2

Check a specific version with /api/v1/cve/match.

References

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/
https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/may/07/security-releases/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/07/1

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-32873