CVE-2025-32873

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().

Weakness classification

• cve@mitre.org: CWE-770

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Release Notes
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory