High
Security advisory
Plone 4.0 through 5.1a1 does not have security declarations for Dexterity content-related WebDAV requests, which allows remote attackers to gain webdav access via unspecified vectors.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-4041
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Plone 4.0 through 5.1a1 does not have security declarations for Dexterity content-related WebDAV requests, which allows remote attackers to gain webdav access via unspecified vectors.
osv:CVE-2016-4041
Complete source record
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