PT-2014-2317 · Plone Foundation · Plone

Richard Mitchell · Published 2014-09-30 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2012-5490

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Plone versions prior to 4.2.3 Plone versions 4.3 prior to beta 1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. This could potentially affect a large number of devices worldwide, although the exact number is not specified.

Recommendations For Plone versions prior to 4.2.3, update to version 4.2.3 or later to resolve the issue. For Plone versions 4.3 prior to beta 1, update to beta 1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the kssdevel.py module to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5490

GHSA-Q46G-V7R4-9VHR

PYSEC-2014-32

Affected Products

Plone

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5490 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-q46g-v7r4-9vhr · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2014-32 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106 · Patch
• https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/06 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-32.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/plone/Plone · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5490 · Note