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CVE-2016-7147

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the manage_findResult component in the search feature in Zope ZMI in Plone before 4.3.12 and 5.x before 5.0.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving double quotes, as demonstrated by the obj_ids:tokens parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-7140.

Affected products

• Plone CMS: 2.5.5, 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4 (+51)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96117
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117/non-persistent-xss-in-zope2
• https://www.curesec.com/blog/article/blog/Plone-XSS-186.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96117
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117/non-persistent-xss-in-zope2
• https://www.curesec.com/blog/article/blog/Plone-XSS-186.html

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