Security readout for executives and security teams
CVE-2021-33507 is a reflected cross-site scripting issue in Zope components used by Plone and other products. An affected public website could reflect attacker-controlled content back to a user’s browser. Business risk depends on whether the organization runs Plone through 5.2.4 or affected Zope packages on user-facing sites. Exposure is most likely on internet-facing Plone sites through 5.2.4 or other Zope-based applications using affected CMFCore or PluggableAuthService versions. Treat this as a timely web-application remediation item, especially for public Plone sites. It is not supported by the provided sources as actively exploited or critical, but XSS can affect trust, sessions, and administrator workflows. Mitigation focus: Upgrade Products.CMFCore to 2.5.1 or later.; Upgrade Products.PluggableAuthService to 2.6.2 or later.; Apply the Plone 20210518 hotfix where vendor guidance says it applies..
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20210518/reflected-xss-in-various-spotsCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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