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PYSEC-2014-57

Quick fix

PYSEC-2014-57 — plone: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.1.1'

Details

typeswidget.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 does not properly enforce the immutable setting on unspecified content edit forms, which allows remote attackers to hide fields on the forms via a crafted URL.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI/plone

Introduced in: 2.1Fixed in: 4.1.1

Fixpip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.1.1'

References

http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20130618[WEB]
http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20130618-announcement[ADVISORY]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/261[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978469[REPORT]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6fgf-x7wg-hp8r[ADVISORY]