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PYSEC-2026-731

Plone Improper Session Management

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-731 — plone: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'plone>=3.0'

Details

Plone CMS before 3, places a base64 encoded form of the username and password in the `__ac` cookie for the admin account, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain administrative privileges by sniffing the network.

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Affected packages

PyPI/plone

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 3.0

Fixpip install --upgrade 'plone>=3.0'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1393[ADVISORY]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41427[WEB]
https://github.com/plone/Plone[PACKAGE]
http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/secure-login-without-plain-text-passwords[WEB]
http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/48?[WEB]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3754[WEB]
http://www.procheckup.com/Hacking_Plone_CMS.pdf[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489544/100/0/threaded[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/plone[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-593c-j348-f3gv[ADVISORY]