Plone 2.5.5 < 4.3.12 / 5.0.x < 5.0.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (HF 20170117)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 329022

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The version of Plone installed on the remote host is 2.5.5 prior to 4.3.12, or 5.0.x prior to 5.0.7. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the manage_findResult component in the search feature in Zope ZMI in Plone allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving double quotes, as demonstrated by the obj_ids:tokens parameter. (CVE-2016-7147)

- Plone allows remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism and obtain sensitive information by leveraging the Python string format method. (CVE-2017-5524)

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 (PloneHotfix20170117) may remediate this without a version upgrade, this plugin only reports when running in Paranoid mode.

Solution

Apply the vendor hotfix (Products.PloneHotfix20170117), or upgrade to Plone version 4.3.12, 5.0.7, or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 329022

File Name: plone_HF_20170117.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: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7147

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:plone:plone

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/17/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7147, CVE-2017-5524

Detections

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