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PYSEC-2026-730

Plone Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in the LiveSearch module

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-730 — plone: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'plone>=3.0.4'

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI/plone

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.0.4

Fixpip install --upgrade 'plone>=3.0.4'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4571[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/plone/Plone[PACKAGE]
https://web.archive.org/web/20081012113150/http://secunia.com/advisories/28293[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20120705155735/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27098[WEB]
http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7439[WEB]
http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/3.0.4[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/plone[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-46f9-f8jm-mw2x[ADVISORY]