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plone: open redirect and XSS in login form

Published Jan 3, 2018

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.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 3, 2018
Updated Sep 17, 2024
Reserved Jan 3, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Nov 28, 2017
GHSA-8G72-GQ68-6GQH