Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in plone (CVE-2015-7316)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in plone (CVE-2015-7316). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 3da710a2cd68587f0bf34f2e7ea1167d6eeee087, 4.0a1, 4.1a1, 4.2a1, 4.3a1, 4.3.7, 5.0rc2 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Plone 3.3.0 through 3.3.6, 4.0.0 through 4.0.10, 4.1.0 through 4.1.6, 4.2.0 through 4.2.7, 4.3.x before 4.3.7, and 5.0rc1.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2015-7316 has been found in plone.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.1/10.
What to do: upgrade plone to 3da710a2cd68587f0bf34f2e7ea1167d6eeee087, 4.0a1, 4.1a1, 4.2a1, 4.3a1, 4.3.7, 5.0rc2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "plone CVE-2015-7316" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2015-7316 (plone) — CWE-79 / CVSS v3 6.1
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Patched: 3da710a2cd68587f0bf34f2e7ea1167d6eeee087, 4.0a1, 4.1a1, 4.2a1, 4.3a1, 4.3.7, 5.0rc2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) exists in plone.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of plone.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.1/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 3da710a2cd68587f0bf34f2e7ea1167d6eeee087, 4.0a1, 4.1a1, 4.2a1, 4.3a1, 4.3.7, 5.0rc2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'plone' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'plone' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
ploneを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade plone to 3da710a2cd68587f0bf34f2e7ea1167d6eeee087, 4.0a1, 4.1a1, 4.2a1, 4.3a1, 4.3.7, 5.0rc2ステージング環境で 3da710a2cd68587f0bf34f2e7ea1167d6eeee087, 4.0a1, 4.1a1, 4.2a1, 4.3a1, 4.3.7, 5.0rc2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory github.com
- patch github.com
- report bugzilla.redhat.com
- web openwall.com
- web plone.org