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Plone 2.5.5 < 4.3.16 / 5.0.x < 5.0.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities (HF 20171128)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 329003

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Plone installed on the remote host is 2.5.5 prior to 4.3.16, 5.0.x prior to 5.0.10. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

 - When you visit a page where you need to login, sends you to the login form with a 'came_from' parameter set to the previous url. (CVE-2017-1000481)

 - A member of the Plone site could set javascript in the home_page property of his profile, and have this executed when a visitor click the home page link on the author page. (CVE-2017-1000482)

 - Accessing private content via str.format in through-the-web templates and scripts in Plone.
 (CVE-2017-1000483)

 - By linking to a specific url in Plone with a parameter, an attacker could send you to his own website.
 (CVE-2017-1000484)

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 (PloneHotfix20171128) may remediate this without a version upgrade, this plugin only reports when running in Paranoid mode.

Solution

Apply the vendor hotfix (Products.PloneHotfix20171128), or upgrade to Plone version 4.3.16, 5.0.10, or later.

See Also

https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20171128

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 329003

File Name: plone_HF_20171128.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/22/2026

Updated: 7/23/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000484

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000483

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:plone:plone

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000481, CVE-2017-1000482, CVE-2017-1000483, CVE-2017-1000484