CVE-2026-55248: plone.app.portlets vulnerable to denial of service via RSS feed portlet
By adding an RSS portlet, and giving this a link to a very large file, a member can cause a denial of service attack, because Plone will use lots of memory. The member could also use different urls to try to get information about the internal network and open port numbers (SSRF). A malicious RSS feed could cause stored XSS, when the url of a feed item is a javascript url.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-x5g3-w747-2h8q
- github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/commit/09da52ef7b297daa8e0cfd2361e47c37d9b073ad
- github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/commit/9f16b6fb10211916686c6c346ea174bf517e3fbd
- github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/commit/a3b2c2887165b308cd915cbb87b8276f90a76680
- github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/commit/df5e256baee55083cbd6b9a2623675d4cb26b6cd
- github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/security/advisories/GHSA-x5g3-w747-2h8q
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55248
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