CVE-2012-5491

medium
Published 2014-09-30 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
4.3

Description

z3c.form, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, allows remote attackers to obtain the default form field values by leveraging knowledge of the form location and the element id.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/07

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIplone<4.2.34.2.3
python PyPIplone>=4.3a0,<4.3b14.3b1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ploneplone{"endIncluding":"4.2.2"}
ploneplone1.0
ploneplone1.0.1
ploneplone1.0.2
ploneplone1.0.3
ploneplone1.0.4
ploneplone1.0.5
ploneplone1.0.6
ploneplone2.0
ploneplone2.0.1
ploneplone2.0.2
ploneplone2.0.3
ploneplone2.0.4
ploneplone2.0.5
ploneplone2.1
ploneplone2.1.1
ploneplone2.1.2
ploneplone2.1.3
ploneplone2.1.4
ploneplone2.5
ploneplone2.5.1
ploneplone2.5.2
ploneplone2.5.3
ploneplone2.5.4
ploneplone2.5.5
ploneplone3.0
ploneplone3.0.1
ploneplone3.0.2
ploneplone3.0.3
ploneplone3.0.4
ploneplone3.0.5
ploneplone3.0.6
ploneplone3.1
ploneplone3.1.1
ploneplone3.1.2
ploneplone3.1.3
ploneplone3.1.4
ploneplone3.1.5.1
ploneplone3.1.6
ploneplone3.1.7
ploneplone3.2
ploneplone3.2.1
ploneplone3.2.2
ploneplone3.2.3
ploneplone3.3
ploneplone3.3.1
ploneplone3.3.2
ploneplone3.3.3
ploneplone3.3.4
ploneplone3.3.5
ploneplone4.0
ploneplone4.0.1
ploneplone4.0.2
ploneplone4.0.3
ploneplone4.0.4
ploneplone4.0.5
ploneplone4.0.6.1
ploneplone4.1
ploneplone4.1.4
ploneplone4.1.5
ploneplone4.1.6
ploneplone4.2
ploneplone4.2.0.1
ploneplone4.2.1
ploneplone4.2.1.1
ploneplone4.3

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.