VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7140

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Published 2017-03-07 · Modified 2024-04-29
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.1

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the ZMI page in Zope2 in Plone CMS 5.x through 5.0.6, 4.x through 4.3.11, and 3.3.x through 3.3.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20160830/non-persistent-xss-in-zope2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/05/5

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/05/4

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIplone>=5.0a1,<5.0.75.0.7
python PyPIplone>=3.3a1,<4.3.124.3.12
python PyPIplone>=3.3,<4.0a15.0.7

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ploneplone3.3
ploneplone3.3.1
ploneplone3.3.2
ploneplone3.3.3
ploneplone3.3.4
ploneplone3.3.5
ploneplone3.3.6
ploneplone4.0
ploneplone4.0.1
ploneplone4.0.2
ploneplone4.0.3
ploneplone4.0.4
ploneplone4.0.5
ploneplone4.0.7
ploneplone4.0.8
ploneplone4.0.9
ploneplone4.0.10
ploneplone4.1
ploneplone4.1.1
ploneplone4.1.2
ploneplone4.1.3
ploneplone4.1.4
ploneplone4.1.5
ploneplone4.1.6
ploneplone4.2
ploneplone4.2.1
ploneplone4.2.2
ploneplone4.2.3
ploneplone4.2.4
ploneplone4.2.5
ploneplone4.2.6
ploneplone4.2.7
ploneplone4.3
ploneplone4.3.1
ploneplone4.3.2
ploneplone4.3.3
ploneplone4.3.4
ploneplone4.3.5
ploneplone4.3.6
ploneplone4.3.7
ploneplone4.3.8
ploneplone4.3.9
ploneplone4.3.10
ploneplone4.3.11
ploneplone5.0
ploneplone5.0.1
ploneplone5.0.2
ploneplone5.0.3
ploneplone5.0.4
ploneplone5.0.5
ploneplone5.0.6
ploneplone5.1a1

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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