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CVE-2020-7937

Safety vulnerability ID: 37785

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The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Jan 23, 2020 Updated at Mar 27, 2025
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Advisory

An XSS issue in the title field in Plone 5.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to insert JavaScript that will be executed when other users access the site. See: CVE-2020-7937.

Affected package

plone

Latest version: 6.1.1

The Plone Content Management System

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

An XSS issue in the title field in Plone 5.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to insert JavaScript that will be executed when other users access the site.


MISC:https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121: https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121
MISC:https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/xss-in-the-title-field-on-plone-5-0-and-higher: https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/xss-in-the-title-field-on-plone-5-0-and-higher
MISC:https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1
MLIST:[oss-security] 20200124 Re: Plone security hotfix 20200121: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/1

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

MEDIUM 5.4

CVSS v3 Details

MEDIUM 5.4
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
LOW
User Interaction (UI)
REQUIRED
Scope (S)
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
LOW
Integrity Impact (I)
LOW
Availability Availability (A)
NONE

CVSS v2 Details

LOW 3.5
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
MEDIUM
Authentication (Au)
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
NONE