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Django has a denial-of-service possibility in strip_tags()

GHSA-8j24-cjrq-gr2m · BIT-django-2025-32873 · CVE-2025-32873 · PYSEC-2025-37

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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().

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