CVE-2008-4571

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-4571
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-10-15 20:00:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionCross-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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Plone Plone 2.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.1_rc All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5_beta1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#7439 (Possible XSS into LiveSearch module) – Plone development workspace af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 dev.plone.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Plone 3.0.4 — Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 plone.org Patch
Plone 'LiveSearch' Module HTML Injection Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
Plone LiveSearch Module News Item Script Insertion - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org/40660 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 997204 Python (Pip) Security Update for Plone (GHSA-46f9-f8jm-mw2x)

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