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Django 4.2.17 release notes
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*December 4, 2024*

Django 4.2.17 fixes one security issue with severity "high" and one security
issue with severity "moderate" in 4.2.16.

CVE-2024-53907: Denial-of-service possibility in ``strip_tags()``
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:func:`~django.utils.html.strip_tags` would be extremely slow to evaluate
certain inputs containing large sequences of nested incomplete HTML entities.
The ``strip_tags()`` method is used to implement the corresponding
:tfilter:`striptags` template filter, which was thus also vulnerable.

``strip_tags()`` now has an upper limit of recursive calls to ``HTMLParser``
before raising a :exc:`.SuspiciousOperation` exception.

Remember that absolutely NO guarantee is provided about the results of
``strip_tags()`` being HTML safe. So NEVER mark safe the result of a
``strip_tags()`` call without escaping it first, for example with
:func:`django.utils.html.escape`.