CVE-2025-32873 Information

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().

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/07/1 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/