CVE-2016-7147

Advisory

Plone 4.3.12 and 5.0.7 include a fix for CVE-2016-7147: 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.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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.


MISC:https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117: https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117
MISC:https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117/non-persistent-xss-in-zope2: https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117/non-persistent-xss-in-zope2
MISC:https://www.curesec.com/blog/article/blog/Plone-XSS-186.html: https://www.curesec.com/blog/article/blog/Plone-XSS-186.html
BID:96117: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96117

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7147
• https://www.curesec.com/blog/article/blog/Plone-XSS-186.html
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117/non-persistent-xss-in-zope2
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96117