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CVE-2021-33509

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

Plone through 5.2.4 allows remote authenticated managers to perform disk I/O via crafted keyword arguments to the ReStructuredText transform in a Python script.

Affected products

• Plone CMS: through 5.2.4

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/22/1
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20210518/writing-arbitrary-files-via-docutils-and-python-script
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/22/1
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20210518/writing-arbitrary-files-via-docutils-and-python-script

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