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GHSA-X5G3-W747-2H8Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-28 18:41 – Updated: 2026-08-28 18:41

Summary

plone.app.portlets vulnerable to denial of service via RSS feed portlet

Details

Impact

By adding an RSS portlet, and giving this a link to a very large file, a member can cause a denial of service attack, because Plone will use lots of memory. The member could also use different urls to try to get information about the internal network and open port numbers (SSRF). A malicious RSS feed could cause stored XSS, when the url of a feed item is a javascript url.

Patches

The problem has been patched in plone.app.portlets.

For Plone 6.2: upgrade to plone.app.portlets 7.0.2
For Plone 6.1: upgrade to plone.app.portlets 6.0.4
For Plone 6.0: upgrade to plone.app.portlets 5.0.8

Workarounds

If upgrading is not immediately possible:

Restrict who can manage portlets: remove the plone.app.portlets.ManageOwnPortlets permission from untrusted roles, and limit Manage portlets to trusted administrators (usually this is already restricted to the Manager and Site Administrator roles).
Where the RSS portlet is not needed, unregister it so it cannot be added. This would need to be done by editing a portlets.xml in your own code, so it is not a quick fix.

References

This is similar to this plone.app.event vulnerability. It was discovered by the Plone Security Team by thinking of similar cases to the plone.app.event problem.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

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  "summary": "plone.app.portlets vulnerable to denial of service via RSS feed portlet"
}

CVE-2026-55248 (GCVE-0-2026-55248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 18:40 – Updated: 2026-08-28 20:35

Title

plone.app.portlets: Denial of service via RSS feed portlet

Summary

plone.app.portlets provides portlets and a Plone-specific user interface for plone.portlets. Prior to 5.0.8, 6.0.4, and 7.0.2, a member who can add an RSS portlet can set its feed URL to a very large response, causing src/plone/app/portlets/portlets/rss.py to download and retain excessive data in memory and deny service. The same RSS URL handling accepts internal hosts, IP addresses, single-word domains, and explicit ports, allowing server-side requests that can probe internal network services and open ports. A malicious feed item can also supply a JavaScript URL that is retained as the item link and can execute script when used by a victim. The affected logic includes _rss_feed_url_validator, _normal_url_validator, RSSFeed._retrieveFeed, RSSFeed._buildItemDict, and the FEED_DATA in-memory cache. This issue is fixed in versions 5.0.8, 6.0.4, and 7.0.2.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-28 20:35 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/secur…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/commi…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/commi…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/commi…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/commi…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
plone	plone.app.portlets	Affected: < 5.0.8 Affected: >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.4 Affected: >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2

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