Possible XSS security issue in LinguaPlone

Hanno Schlichting <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:22:45 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.internationalization,gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi.

A possible XSS security issue has been found in LinguaPlone caused by
displaying unquoted user entered data in the translation browser
popup. The translation browser popup is only available from the
advanced `manage translations` screen.

The issue has been reported to the Plone security team by Andrew
Nicholson of infiniterecursion.com.au.


Affected versions of LinguaPlone

All past and present versions of LinguaPlone are vulnerable.


Updated versions

The issue has been fixed in the following versions of LinguaPlone:

For Plone 4.x install: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.LinguaPlone/4.0

For Plone 3.3.x install: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.LinguaPlone/3.2

For Plone 3.1.5 or later and Plone 3.2.x install:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.LinguaPlone/2.4.1

Older versions of LinguaPlone are no longer maintained.


Reported incidents

No incidents of this vulnerability being exploited have been reported.


If you have any questions please discuss these on the
[email protected] mailing list or sent those containing
sensitive content to the Security Team at security-z4DKO/[email protected]

Cheers,
Hanno

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