Vulnerability · Published Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by TuranSec

CVE-2026-71238DjangoCRM - Hardcoded Django SECRET_KEY Enables Session and CSRF Token Forgery

Critical 9.1

In plain English

A critical-severity hard-coded credentials in django-crm from DjangoCRM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 38% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.1Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 61.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

DjangoCRM ships with its Django SECRET_KEY hardcoded directly in the committed webcrm/settings.py rather than read from an environment variable. Since this key is used for session signing, CSRF token generation, and password reset tokens, anyone who reads the public repository can forge valid session cookies (including for the superadmin account), forge CSRF tokens, and forge password reset tokens, achieving full account takeover.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
DjangoCRM	django-crm	0

Weakness: CWE-798 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

https://github.com/DjangoCRM/django-crm third-party-advisory