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CVE-2020-25626

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-25626 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Django REST Framework versions prior to 3.12.0 and 3.11.2, specifically impacting the browseable API viewer. The flaw allows an attacker to inject malicious script tags by manipulating user-controlled strings, leading to potential client-side code execution. With a CVSS score of 6.1, this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but can be exploited remotely (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), resulting in low impact to confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:encode:django_rest_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph_storage:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0129 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: djangorestframeworkFixed in: 3.11.2
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.6-1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.7 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-rhel7:3.7.3-1
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-fx83-3ph3-9j2qmedium

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Django REST Framework

Mar 19, 2021
redhatCVE-2020-25626Moderate

django-rest-framework: XSS Vulnerability in API viewer

Sep 30, 2020

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20201016-0003
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2022/dsa-5186
Third Party Advisory