Wagtail CRX CodeRed Extensions vulnerable to Path Traversal

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2021-46897 · GHSA-h454-rq3m-89rc · PYSEC-2023-210 · Published 22/10/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-46897 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting coderedcms, codered extensions (wagtailcrx).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.88%, higher than 59.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.22.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
coderedcms PyPI	`< 0.22.3`	`0.22.3`
codered extensions wagtailcrx	`< 0.22.3`	`0.22.3`

Description

views.py in Wagtail CRX CodeRed Extensions (formerly CodeRed CMS or coderedcms) before 0.22.3 allows upward protected/..%2f..%2f path traversal when serving protected media.

NVD description

views.py in Wagtail CRX CodeRed Extensions (formerly CodeRed CMS or coderedcms) before 0.22.3 allows upward protected/..%2f..%2f path traversal when serving protected media.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46897 · ADVISORY
coderedcorp/coderedcms · WEB
coderedcorp/coderedcms#450 · WEB
coderedcorp/coderedcms commit 06006ce · WEB
coderedcorp/coderedcms · PACKAGE
coderedcorp/coderedcms · WEB
pypa/advisory-database · WEB
GitHub Advisory GHSA-h454-rq3m-89rc · ADVISORY

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