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CVE-2011-4924

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Zope 2.8.x before 2.8.12, 2.9.x before 2.9.12, 2.10.x before 2.10.11, 2.11.x before 2.11.6, and 2.12.x before 2.12.3, 3.1.1 through 3.4.1. allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to the way error messages perform sanitization. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1104

Affected products

• zopefoundation Zope: from 2.8.0 before 2.8.12; from 2.9.0 before 2.9.12; from 2.10.0 before 2.10.11; from 2.11.0 before 2.11.6; from 2.12.0 before 2.12.3; from 3.1.1 through 3.4.1 — fixed in 2.10.11, 2.11.6, 2.12.3, 2.8.12, 2.9.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: zopefoundation Zope 2.10.11, 2.11.6, 2.12.3, 2.8.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/16
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/17
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/18
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/19
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4924
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4924
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4924
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/16
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/17
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/18
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/19
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4924

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