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CVE-2016-7138
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URL checking infrastructure in Plone CMS 5.x through 5.0.6, 4.x through 4.3.11, and 3.3.x…
Medium6.1EPSS 1.6%
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Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the URL checking infrastructure in Plone CMS 5.x through 5.0.6, 4.x through 4.3.11, and 3.3.x through 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (7)
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139110/Plone-CMS-4.3.11-5.0.6-XSS-Traversal-Open-Redirection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20160830/non-persistent-xss-in-plone-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20161019 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Plone CMS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160905 Re: CVE request: Plone multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160905 Re: CVE request: Plone multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20161012 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Plone CMS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 92752 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-v3hp-f8qr-cf3p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .