Plone CMS until version 5.2.4 has a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user fullname property and the file upload functionality. The user's input data is not properly encoded when being echoed back to the user. This data can be interpreted as executable code by the browser and allows an attacker to execute JavaScript in the context of the victim's browser if the victim opens a vulnerable page containing an XSS payload.

The version of Plone installed on the remote host is 4.3.x prior to 5.2.5. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

  - Plone CMS has a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user fullname property and the file     upload functionality. (CVE-2021-3313)

  - Products.PluggableAuthService within Zope has an information disclosure vulnerability - everyone can list the names of     roles defined in the ZODB Role Manager plugin if the site uses this plugin. (CVE-2021-21336)

  - Products.GenericSetup within Zope has an information disclosure vulnerability - anonymous visitors may     view log and snapshot files generated by the Generic Setup Tool. (CVE-2021-21360)

  - Zope has a remote code execution vulnerability via a traversal in the TAL expressions. (CVE-2021-32633,     CVE-2021-32674)

  - The AccessControl module within Zope has a remote code execution via the use of unsafe classes in     permitted modules. (CVE-2021-32807)

  - Zope Products.CMFCore and Products.PluggableAuthService, as used in Plone and other products, allow     Reflected XSS. (CVE-2021-33507)

  - Plone allows XSS via a full name that is mishandled during rendering of the ownership tab of a content     item. (CVE-2021-33508)

  - Plone allows remote authenticated managers to perform disk I/O via crafted keyword arguments to the     ReStructuredText transform in a Python script. (CVE-2021-33509)

  - Plone allows remote authenticated managers to conduct SSRF attacks via an event ical URL, to read one line     of a file. (CVE-2021-33510)

  - Plone allows SSRF via the lxml parser. (CVE-2021-33511)

  - Plone allows stored XSS attacks (by a Contributor) by uploading an SVG or HTML document. (CVE-2021-33512)

  - Plone allows XSS via the inline_diff methods in Products.CMFDiffTool. (CVE-2021-33513)

  - An issue in Plone CMS allows an attacker to access sensitive information via the RSS feed portlet.
    (CVE-2021-33926)

  - In Plone, Editors are vulnerable to XSS in the folder contents view, if a Contributor has created a folder with a SCRIPT tag     in the description field (CVE-2021-35959)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number. Since a vendor hotfix (PloneHotfix20210518) may remediate this without a version upgrade, this plugin only reports when running in Paranoid mode.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Plone CMS until version 5.2.4 has a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the user fullname
    property and the file upload functionality. The user's input data is not properly encoded when being
    echoed back to the user. This data can be interpreted as executable code by the browser and allows an
    attacker to execute JavaScript in the context of the victim's browser if the victim opens a vulnerable
    page containing an XSS payload. (CVE-2021-3313)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
329024	Plone 4.3.x < 5.2.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (HF 20210518)	Nessus	Misc.	critical
431916	SCA: security update for plone (GHSA-hprr-4vfq-fcxw)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
431916	SCA: security update for plone (GHSA-hprr-4vfq-fcxw)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2021-3313

medium

Tenable Plugins

critical

medium

medium