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critical 9.1

CVE-2011-0720 json

Plone Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

published 2011-02-03 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-3v28-9jjp-4g5w , PYSEC-2011-13 , EUVD-2011-0018

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Plone 2.5 through 4.0, as used in Conga, luci, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access, read or create arbitrary content, and change the site skin via unknown vectors.

Patch / fix

  • pypi plone 4.0.1, 4.0.4
  • conga RHEL 5 CLUSTER 0.12.2-24.el5_6.1
  • luci RHEL 5 CLUSTER 0.12.2-24.el5_6.1
  • ricci RHEL 5 CLUSTER 0.12.2-24.el5_6.1
  • conga RHEL 4 CLUSTER 0.11.2-4.el4.2
  • luci RHEL 4 CLUSTER 0.11.2-4.el4.2
  • ricci RHEL 4 CLUSTER 0.11.2-4.el4.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:0394RHSA-2011:0393

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-0720 updated cvss 7.5

plone: unauthorized remote administrative access

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 conga
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Cluster Suite 4AS luci 0.11.2-4.el4.2, conga 0.11.2-4.el4.2, ricci 0.11.2-4.el4.2 Red Hat Cluster Suite 4ES luci 0.11.2-4.el4.2, conga 0.11.2-4.el4.2, ricci 0.11.2-4.el4.2 Red Hat Cluster Suite 4WS luci 0.11.2-4.el4.2, conga 0.11.2-4.el4.2, ricci 0.11.2-4.el4.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:0393
  • Red Hat RHEL Clustering (v. 5 server) luci 0.12.2-24.el5_6.1, conga 0.12.2-24.el5_6.1, ricci 0.12.2-24.el5_6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:0394
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 luci
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi plone
>=2.5, <4.0.4
<4.0.1
4.0.4
4.0.1

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.