Plone < 3.3.6 XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 329027

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The version of Plone installed on the remote host is prior to 3.3.6. It is, therefore, affected by a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, in PortalTransforms due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users.
An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by convincing a user to click a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session.

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 (PloneHotfix20100612) may remediate this without a version upgrade, this plugin only reports when running in Paranoid mode.

Solution

Apply the vendor hotfix (Products.PloneHotfix20100612), or upgrade to Plone version 3.3.6 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 329027

File Name: plone_CVE-2010-2422.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: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-2422

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:plone:plone

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2422

Detections

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