National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1340
Original release date:08/05/2011
Last revised:08/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in skins/plone_templates/default_error_message.pt in Plone before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the type_name parameter to Members/ipa/createObject.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.plone.org/plone/changeset/12262
Type: Patch Information
External Source: JVNDB
Name: JVNDB-2011-000056
External Source: JVN
Name: JVN#41222793
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6110
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)