CVE-2017-5524: Plone

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Plone 4.x through 4.3.11 and 5.x through 5.0.6 allow remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism and obtain sensitive information by leveraging the Python string format method.

Affected products

• Plone Plone: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …

Published 2017-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.