CVE-2026-4277

CRITICAL 9.8

Privilege abuse in GenericInlineModelAdmin

CVSS Score

9.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

2th

An issue was discovered in 6.0 before 6.0.4, 5.2 before 5.2.13, and 4.2 before 4.2.30. Add permissions on inline model instances were not validated on submission of forged `POST` data in `GenericInlineModelAdmin`. Earlier, unsupported Django series (such as 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x) were not evaluated and may also be affected. Django would like to thank N05ec@LZU-DSLab for reporting this issue.

CWE	CWE-862
Vendor	djangoproject
Product	django
Published	Apr 7, 2026
Last Updated	Apr 9, 2026

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Affected Versions

djangoproject / Django

6.0 < 6.0.4 5.2 < 5.2.13 4.2 < 4.2.30

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

docs.djangoproject.com: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ groups.google.com: https://groups.google.com/g/django-announce djangoproject.com: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/apr/07/security-releases/

Credits

🔍 N05ec@LZU-DSLab Jacob Walls Jacob Walls