{"id":"CVE-2017-12794","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-12794","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:43:18.577Z","title":"Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack.","description":"In Django 1.10.x before 1.10.8 and 1.11.x before 1.11.5, HTML autoescaping was disabled in a portion of the template for the technical 500 debug page. Given the right circumstances, this allowed a cross-site scripting attack. This vulnerability shouldn't affect most production sites since you shouldn't run with \"DEBUG = True\" (which makes this page accessible) in your production settings.","published":"2017-09-07T13:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:03:57.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["djangoproject/django"],"epss":{"score":0.23566,"percentile":0.97791,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.15077,"percentile":0.96632},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.23566,"percentile":0.97698}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 23.6%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.23566,"from":0.15077,"percentile":0.97698},"summary":"EPSS moved from 15.1% to 23.6% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100643","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039264","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3559-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2017/sep/05/security-releases/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12794","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}