National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4571
Original release date:10/15/2008
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the LiveSearch module in Plone before 3.0.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Description field for search results, as demonstrated using the onerror Javascript even in an IMG tag.
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: BID
Name: 27098
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/3.0.4
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28293
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 40660
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7439
Type: Advisory