PT-2020-19859 · Plone · Plone

Damiano Esposito · Published 2020-01-23 · Updated 2022-05-24 · CVE-2020-7937

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Plone versions 5.0 through 5.2.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the title field, allowing users with a certain privilege level to insert JavaScript code. This code will be executed when other users access the site.

Recommendations For Plone versions 5.0 through 5.2.1, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent the execution of malicious JavaScript code.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-7937

GHSA-8MC4-2XRC-G582

PYSEC-2020-86

Affected Products

Plone

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-8mc4-2xrc-g582 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7937 · Security Note
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/xss-in-the-title-field-on-plone-5-0-and-higher · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7937 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2020-86 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2020-86.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/plone/Plone · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/1 · Note
• https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1 · Note