# CVE-2026-61597: djust is vulnerable to stored/reflected XSS via javascript: URLs in built-in component template tags

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-4037, GHSA-4MF4-73J6-MVRW
- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.0.7
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-09-17

## Affected

- djust-org djust: fixed in 1.0.7
- djust (PyPI): fixed in 1.0.7
- djust (PyPI): fixed in 1.0.7

## Description

djust provides Phoenix LiveView-style reactive server-side rendering for Django with Rust-powered performance. Prior to version 1.0.7, many djust built-in component template tags (`djust.components.templatetags.*`) render a developer/user-supplied URL into an `href` / `action` attribute, HTML-escaping it with `conditional_escape` but never validating the URL scheme. HTML escaping prevents attribute breakout but does not neutralize a `javascript:` URI (which needs no escapable characters), so a URL value of `javascript:alert(document.cookie)` lands verbatim in `<a href="javascript:alert(document.cookie)">` and executes in the victim's session on click. Version 1.0.7 contains a fix. As a workaround, do not pass user-controllable URLs to the affected built-in component tags; pre-validate URL schemes in application code before binding them to component arguments.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on djust-org djust, djust, upgrade to a fixed version (1.0.7) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/djust-org/djust/security/advisories/GHSA-4mf4-73j6-mvrw
- https://github.com/djust-org/djust/releases/tag/v1.0.7

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