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Plone 3.3.x < 4.3.12 / 5.0.x < 5.0.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (HF 20160830)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 329006

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Plone installed on the remote host is 3.3.x prior to 4.3.12, or 5.0.x < 5.0.7. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in Plone CMS allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter in a getFile action to Plone/++theme++barceloneta/@@plone.resourceeditor.filemanager-actions. (CVE-2016-7135)

 - z3c.form in Plone CMS allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted GET request. (CVE-2016-7136)

 - Multiple open redirect vulnerabilities in Plone CMS allow remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the referer parameter to (1) %2b%2bgroupdashboard%2b%2bplone.dashboard1%2bgroup/%2b/portlets.Actions or (2) folder/%2b%2bcontextportlets%2b%2bplone.footerportlets/%2b /portlets.Actions or the (3) came_from parameter to /login_form. (CVE-2016-7137)

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URL checking infrastructure in Plone CMS allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL. (CVE-2016-7138)

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in an unspecified page template in Plone allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors. (CVE-2016-7139)

 - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the ZMI page in Zope2 in Plone CMS allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2016-7140)

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 (PloneHotfix20160830) may remediate this without a version upgrade, this plugin only reports when running in Paranoid mode.

Solution

Apply the vendor hotfix (Products.PloneHotfix20160830), or upgrade to Plone version 4.3.12, 5.0.7, or later.

See Also

https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20160830

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 329006

File Name: plone_HF_20160830.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: 23.49

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7137

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7140

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:plone:plone

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7135, CVE-2016-7136, CVE-2016-7137, CVE-2016-7138, CVE-2016-7139, CVE-2016-7140