---
id: CVE-2024-28865
aliases:
  - GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h
  - PYSEC-2026-2049
title: Denial of service via regular expression
summary: Denial of service via regular expression
severity: high
cvss: 7.5
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'
vendor: wiki
product: wiki
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - wiki < 0.10.1
patched:
  - wiki 0.10.1
published: '2024-03-18'
updated: '2026-09-10'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-10T03:50:10.855393421Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/security/advisories/GHSA-wj85-w4f4-xh8h
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28865'
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki/commit/8e280fd6c0bd27ce847c67b2d216c6cbf920f88c
  - url: 'https://github.com/django-wiki/django-wiki'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
epss: 0.0061
epssPercentile: 0.46888
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:53.820Z'
---

## Overview

### Impact

All historical installations of django-wiki are vulnerable to maliciously crafted article content, that can cause severe use of server CPU through a regular expression loop.

### Patches



### Workarounds

Close off access to create and edit articles by anonymous users.

### References
_Are there any links users can visit to find out more?_


## Affected packages

- `wiki < 0.10.1`

## Remediation

Upgrade to a patched release:

- `wiki 0.10.1`