CVE-2008-4571

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the LiveSearch module in Plone before 3.0.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Description field for search results, as demonstrated using the onerror Javascript even in an IMG tag.

Affected products

Plone CMS: through 3.0.3; 2.0.5, 2.1.2, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.1_rc, 2.5.4 (+4)

References

http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7439
http://osvdb.org/40660
http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/3.0.4
http://secunia.com/advisories/28293
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27098
http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7439
http://osvdb.org/40660
http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/3.0.4
http://secunia.com/advisories/28293
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27098

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