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CVE-2020-5224

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-5224 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Django User Sessions prior to version 1.7.1. It allows for session takeover if an attacker can exploit an existing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability to extract session keys from rendered HTML. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a low attack complexity and no user interaction required once an XSS is present. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:django-user-sessions_project:django-user-sessions:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0053 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 17,822 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: django-user-sessionsFixed in: 1.7.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-5fq8-3q2f-4m5gmedium

Session key exposure through session list in Django User Sessions

Jan 24, 2020

References

github.com / Bouke/django-user-sessions/security/advisories/GHSA-5fq8-3q2f-4m5g
Third Party Advisory
github.com / jazzband/django-user-sessions/commit/f0c4077e7d1436ba6d721af85cee89222ca5d2d9
Patch