Django 4.2.11 release notes

March 4, 2024

Django 4.2.11 fixes a security issue with severity “moderate” and a regression in 4.2.10.

CVE-2024-27351: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words()

django.utils.text.Truncator.words() method (with html=True) and truncatewords_html template filter were subject to a potential regular expression denial-of-service attack using a suitably crafted string (follow up to CVE 2019-14232 and CVE 2023-43665).

Bugfixes

• Fixed a regression in Django 4.2.10 where intcomma template filter could return a leading comma for string representation of floats (#35172).