CVE-2016-4041: Plone vulnerable to privilege escalation in WebDAV

May 17, 2022 (updated October 18, 2024)

Plone 4.0 through 5.1a1 does not have security declarations for Dexterity content-related WebDAV requests, which allows remote attackers to gain webdav access via unspecified vectors.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-qqgj-22gr-73vx
github.com/plone/Plone
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2017-55.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4041
plone.org/security/hotfix/20160419/privilege-escalation-in-webdav

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