# CVE-2026-54625: django CMS: Page cache ignores plugin-declared Vary headers (disclosure & poisoning)

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3824, GHSA-FWJF-M4QW-9F2X
- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.0.8, 5.1.0
- Published: 2026-08-20 · Updated: 2026-08-20

## Affected

- django-cms: fixed in 5.0.8; from 5.1.0a1, fixed in 5.1.0
- django-cms (PyPI): fixed in 5.0.8

## Description

django CMS is a content management system powered by Django. Prior to 5.0.8 and in 5.1.0a1, the django CMS page cache in cms/cache/page.py ignores request headers declared by plugins through get_vary_cache_on(). The _page_cache_key function includes the cache prefix, site, language, path, and timezone but not the declared header values. Although set_page_cache adds those names to the response Vary header, get_page_cache retrieves the first stored variant under the same header-agnostic key. When CMS_PAGE_CACHE is enabled and a plugin varies content on a header such as Country-Code, one visitor can receive another visitor’s request-specific content, and an unauthenticated attacker can prime the cache with attacker-chosen content. This issue is fixed in versions 5.0.8 and 5.1.0.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-fwjf-m4qw-9f2x
- https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/8646
- https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/pull/8647
- https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/commit/8758714b865ffa79c6bcd0e5c503958ea48885aa
- https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/commit/d5dc1efa18d157445491c4b12c2dd1efd56f439f
- https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/releases/tag/5.0.8
- https://github.com/django-cms/django-cms/releases/tag/5.1.0

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