Critical
Security advisory
Plone through 5.2.4 allows remote authenticated managers to perform disk I/O via crafted keyword arguments to the ReStructuredText transform in a Python script.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-33509
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Plone through 5.2.4 allows remote authenticated managers to perform disk I/O via crafted keyword arguments to the ReStructuredText transform in a Python script.
osv:CVE-2021-33509
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-33509",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:26.978089651Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20210518/writing-arbitrary-files-via-docutils-and-python-script"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 431729,
"published_at": "2021-05-21T22:15:08.537+00:00"
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