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CVE-2016-4041

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Plone 4.0 through 5.1a1 does not have security declarations for Dexterity content-related WebDAV requests, which allows remote attackers to gain webdav access via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Plone CMS: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+38)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/1
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20160419/privilege-escalation-in-webdav
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/1
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20160419/privilege-escalation-in-webdav

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