CVE-2006-4249: Plone allows a user to masquerade as a group

May 1, 2022 (updated June 6, 2026)

Unspecified vulnerability in PlonePAS in Plone 2.5 and 2.5.1, when anonymous member registration is enabled, allows an attacker to “masquerade as a group.”

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30762
github.com/advisories/GHSA-r7j4-82xw-8m9p
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2006-10.yaml
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2006-6.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4249

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