XSS in Plone
CVE-2008-4571
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the LiveSearch module in Plone before 3.0.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Description field for search results, as demonstrated using the onerror Javascript even in an IMG tag.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.012 (65.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 65.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Plone — versions 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/27098 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/28293 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- plone.org/products/plone/releases/3.0.4 (Patch)
- dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7439 (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- osvdb.org/40660 (vdb-entry)