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CVE-2021-33513 (GCVE-0-2021-33513)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-21 21:31 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:50
VLAI
Summary
Plone through 5.2.4 allows XSS via the inline_diff methods in Products.CMFDiffTool.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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