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medium 5.9

CVE-2013-4193 json

Plone Unrestricted Filed Manipulation vulnerability via content edit forms

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-6fgf-x7wg-hp8r , PYSEC-2014-57 , EUVD-2014-0075

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

typeswidget.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 does not properly enforce the immutable setting on unspecified content edit forms, which allows remote attackers to hide fields on the forms via a crafted URL.

Patch / fix

  • pypi plone 4.1.1, 4.2.6, 4.3.2

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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-2013-4193 updated cvss 4.3

plone: Anonymous users capable to hide certain fields from content edit forms (typeswidget.py)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

1.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi plone
>=2.1, <4.1.1
>=4.2, <4.2.6
>=4.3, <4.3.2
4.1.1
4.2.6
4.3.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control

References

Sources

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