Release note for 2.7.4

CHANGELOG.txt

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  * Fix: Make sure all modal chooser search results correspond to the latest search by canceling previous requests (Esper Kuijs)
 
 
+2.7.4 (20.07.2020)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ * Fix: CVE-2020-15118 - prevent HTML injection through form field help text (Timothy Bautista, Matt Westcott)
+ * Fix: Expand Pillow dependency range to include 7.x (Harris Lapiroff, Matt Westcott)
+
+
 2.7.3 (04.05.2020)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

docs/releases/2.7.4.rst

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+===========================
+Wagtail 2.7.4 release notes
+===========================
+
+CVE-2020-15118: HTML injection through form field help text
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This release addresses an HTML injection vulnerability through help text in the ``wagtail.contrib.forms`` form builder app. When a form page type is made available to Wagtail editors, and the page template is built using Django's standard form rendering helpers such as ``form.as_p`` :ref:`(as directed in the documentation) <form_builder_usage>`, any HTML tags used within a form field's help text will be rendered unescaped in the page. Allowing HTML within help text is `an intentional design decision by Django <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.Field.help_text>`_; however, as a matter of policy Wagtail does not allow editors to insert arbitrary HTML by default, as this could potentially be used to carry out cross-site scripting attacks, including privilege escalation. This functionality should therefore not have been made available to editor-level users.
+
+The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.
+
+Site owners who wish to re-enable the use of HTML within help text (and are willing to accept the risk of this being exploited by editors) may set ``WAGTAILFORMS_HELP_TEXT_ALLOW_HTML = True`` in their configuration settings.
+
+Many thanks to Timothy Bautista for reporting this issue.
+
+
+Additional fixes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ * Expand Pillow dependency range to include 7.x (Harris Lapiroff, Matt Westcott)

docs/releases/index.rst

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    2.8.2
    2.8.1
    2.8
+   2.7.4
    2.7.3
    2.7.2
    2.7.1