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PYSEC-2017-64

Quick fix

PYSEC-2017-64 — plone: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.3.12'

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the manage_findResult component in the search feature in Zope ZMI in Plone before 4.3.12 and 5.x before 5.0.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving double quotes, as demonstrated by the obj_ids:tokens parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-7140.

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Affected packages

PyPI/plone

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.3.12

Fixpip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.3.12'

References

https://www.curesec.com/blog/article/blog/Plone-XSS-186.html[ARTICLE]
https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117/non-persistent-xss-in-zope2[WEB]
https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96117[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-84jm-cpc5-c7g7[ADVISORY]