Django Weblog: Django security releases issued: 1.10 release candidate 1, 1.9.8, and 1.8.14

CVE-2016-6186: XSS in admin's add/change related popup

Unsafe usage of JavaScript's Element.innerHTML could result in XSS in the admin's add/change related popup. Element.textContent is now used to prevent execution of the data.

The debug view also used innerHTML. Although a security issue wasn't identified there, out of an abundance of caution it's also updated to use textContent.

Thanks Vulnerability Laboratory for reporting the issue and Paulo Alvarado for forwarding it to us.

Affected supported versions

• Django master development branch
• Django 1.10 (now at release candidate status)
• Django 1.9
• Django 1.8

Per our supported versions policy, Django 1.7 and older are no longer receiving security updates.

Resolution

Patches to resolve the issues have been applied to Django's master development branch and the 1.10, 1.9, and 1.8 release branches. The patches may be obtained from the following changesets:

• On the development master branch
• On the 1.10 release branch
• On the 1.9 release branch
• On the 1.8 release branch

The following new releases have been issued:

• Django 1.10rc1 (download Django 1.10rc1 | 1.10rc1 checksums)
• Django 1.9.8 (download Django 1.9.8 | 1.9.8 checksums)
• Django 1.8.14 (download Django 1.8.14 | 1.8.14 checksums)

The PGP key ID used for these releases is Tim Graham: 1E8ABDC773EDE252.

General notes regarding security reporting

As always, we ask that potential security issues be reported via private email to security@djangoproject.com, and not via Django's Trac instance or the django-developers list. Please see our security policies for further information.