plone: open redirect and XSS in login form
Published Jan 3, 2018
5.3
MEDIUMCVSS 4.0
EPSS 0.69%
Description
When you visit a page where you need to login, Plone 2.5-5.1rc1 sends you to the login form with a 'came_from' parameter set to the previous url. After you login, you get redirected to the page you tried to view before. An attacker might try to abuse this by letting you click on a specially crafted link. You would login, and get redirected to the site of the attacker, letting you think that you are still on the original Plone site. Or some javascript of the attacker could be executed. Most of these types of attacks are already blocked by Plone, using the `isURLInPortal` check to make sure we only redirect to a page on the same Plone site. But a few more ways of tricking Plone into accepting a malicious link were discovered, and fixed with this hotfix.
Affected products
No data.
- 2.5.5
- 3.3
- 3.3.1
- 3.3.2
- 3.3.3
- 3.3.4
- 3.3.5
- 3.3.6
- 4.0
- 4.0.1
- 4.0.2
- 4.0.3
- 4.0.4
- 4.0.5
- 4.0.7
- 4.0.8
- 4.0.9
- 4.0.10
- 4.1
- 4.1.1
- 4.1.2
- 4.1.3
- 4.1.4
- 4.1.5
- 4.1.6
- 4.2
- 4.2.1
- 4.2.2
- 4.2.3
- 4.2.4
- 4.2.5
- 4.2.6
- 4.2.7
- 4.3
- 4.3.1
- 4.3.2
- 4.3.3
- 4.3.4
- 4.3.5
- 4.3.6
- 4.3.7
- 4.3.8
- 4.3.9
- 4.3.10
- 4.3.11
- 4.3.12
- 4.3.14
- 4.3.15
- 5.0
- 5.0
- 5.0
- 5.0
- 5.0.1
- 5.0.2
- 5.0.3
- 5.0.4
- 5.0.5
- 5.0.6
- 5.0.7
- 5.0.8
- 5.0.9
- 5.1
- 5.1
- 5.1
- 5.1
- 5.1
- 5.1
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
conga
Will not fix
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | conga | Will not fix | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2021–2026- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
Percentile over time
- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.69% (0.00685) | 50.85th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 0.69% (0.00685) | 51.17th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jul 20, 2024 | 0.07% (0.00072) | 31.74th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 4, 2024 | 0.07% (0.00072) | 30.57th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 15, 2024 | 0.07% (0.00070) | 28.55th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.06% (0.00063) | 24.69th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.08% (0.00078) | 31.98th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 27.89th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 10.50th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 0.42% (0.00416) | 10.04th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Apr 14, 2021 | 0.42% (0.00416) | 0.00th | v1 |
References (16)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000481 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532489 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8g72-gq68-6gqh Advisory
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/commit/05a943ecbcdda56bacc93b55c9e2e908d8a7dfab
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/commit/0e50e1e67ea3b6d3187f78cb1a1628081f654d3b
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/commit/236b62b756ff46a92783b3897e717dfb15eb07d8
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/commit/7db5b2c8fb684055987b8c4fdedc29289bd26373
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/issues/2232
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/pull/2233
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/pull/2234
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/pull/2235
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/pull/2236
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2018-70.yaml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000481
- https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20171128/open-redirection-on-login-form x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000481
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.