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[SA52955] Plone Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2013 - 14:20:09 CDT


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TITLE:
Plone Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA52955

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RELEASE DATE:
2013-04-18

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Plone, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP
requests without performing proper validity checks to verify the
requests. This can be exploited to perform certain unspecified
actions when a logged-in user visits a specially crafted web page.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.2.5.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.2.5.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Plone:
http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/4.2.5

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