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Plone Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in the LiveSearch module

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 2, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 9, 2024

Package

pip Plone (pip)

Affected versions

< 3.0.4

Patched versions

3.0.4

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 15, 2008
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 2, 2022
Reviewed Feb 9, 2024
Last updated Feb 9, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(57th percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2008-4571

GHSA ID

GHSA-46f9-f8jm-mw2x

Source code

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