CVE-2020-5224

Session key exposure through session list in Django User Sessions

Published Jan 24, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In Django User Sessions (django-user-sessions) before 1.7.1, the views provided allow users to terminate specific sessions. The session key is used to identify sessions, and thus included in the rendered HTML. In itself this is not a problem. However if the website has an XSS vulnerability, the session key could be extracted by the attacker and a session takeover could happen.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-0066 In Django User Sessions (django-user-sessions) before 1.7.1, the views provided allow users to terminate specific sessions. The session key is used to identify sessions, and thus included in the rendered HTML. In itself this is not a problem. However if the website has an XSS vulnerability, the session key could be extracted by the attacker and a session takeover could happen.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-5fq8-3q2f-4m5g Session key exposure through session list in Django User Sessions
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 8:22 AM
Reserved
Jan 2, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 24, 2020, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:21 AM