Medium
Security advisory
In Plone 5.0 through 5.2.4, Editors are vulnerable to XSS in the folder contents view, if a Contributor has created a folder with a SCRIPT tag in the description field.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-35959
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Plone 5.0 through 5.2.4, Editors are vulnerable to XSS in the folder contents view, if a Contributor has created a folder with a SCRIPT tag in the description field.
osv:CVE-2021-35959
Complete source record
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