CVE-2011-1340 Plone XSS Vulnerability

What is CVE-2011-1340?

CVE-2011-1340 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Plone Plone, published on 5 Aug 2011. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in skins/plone_templates/default_error_message.pt in Plone before 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the type_name parameter to Members/ipa/createObject.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1340?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including plone. It affects 1 product.

Products include Plone Plone.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1340?

Upgrade plone to 2.5.3 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2011-1340 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1340 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2011-3587 Zope Command Execution Vulnerability Critical 9.3
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-cvwc-g7fw-7xrj, PYSEC-2026-896.