Medium
Security advisory
An XSS issue in the title field in Plone 5.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to insert JavaScript that will be executed when other users access the site.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7937
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An XSS issue in the title field in Plone 5.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to insert JavaScript that will be executed when other users access the site.
osv:CVE-2020-7937
Complete source record
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