CVE-2017-1000483: Accessing private content via str.format in through-the-web templates and scripts in Plone 2.5-5.1rc1.
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.93% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 60.6% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: plone (PyPI) 4.3.16, 5.1.0.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to plone (PyPI) 4.3.16, 5.1.0 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Accessing private content via str.format in through-the-web templates and scripts in Plone 2.5-5.1rc1. This improves an earlier hotfix. Since the format method was introduced in Python 2.6, this part of the hotfix is only relevant for Plone 4 and 5.
- Published
- Jan 3, 2018
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.9% · 60th percentile
- CWE
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Report tools
Action score
26
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.9%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| plone | plone | cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- plone plone2.5.5
- plone plone3.3
- plone plone3.3.1
- plone plone3.3.2
- plone plone3.3.3
- plone plone3.3.4
- plone plone3.3.5
- plone plone3.3.6
- plone plone4.0
- plone plone4.0.1
- plone plone4.0.10
- plone plone4.0.2
- plone plone4.0.3
- plone plone4.0.4
- plone plone4.0.5
- plone plone4.0.7
- plone plone4.0.8
- plone plone4.0.9
- plone plone4.1
- plone plone4.1.1
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | plone | from 2.5 · before 4.3.16 | 4.3.16 |
| PyPI | plone | from 5 · before 5.1.0 | 5.1.0 |
| PyPI | plone | from 5.0 · before 5.1.0 | 5.1.0 |
Same product
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2017-1000481Jan 3, 2018 · When you visit a page where you need to login, Plone 2.5-5.1rc1 sends you to the login form with a 'came_from' parameter set to the previous24Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2017-1000482Jan 3, 2018 · A member of the Plone 2.5-5.1rc1 site could set javascript in the home_page property of his profile, and have this executed when a visitor c21Monitor
- Later →CVE-2017-1000484Jan 3, 2018 · By linking to a specific url in Plone 2.5-5.1rc1 with a parameter, an attacker could send you to his own website.24Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PyPI:plone | 4.3.16 | Package registry (OSV) |
| PyPI:plone | 5.1.0 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.