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CVE-2012-5500

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5500 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting Plone versions before 4.2.3 and 4.3 beta 1. An attacker can exploit this by leveraging a valid CSRF token in a crafted request to change the titles of content items. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and medium complexity, leading to a partial impact on integrity (P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0109 is in the 24th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ploneFixed in: 4.2.3
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ploneFixed in: 4.3b1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: conga-0:0.12.2-81.el5
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: conga

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-2q75-f7cp-w86qmedium

Plone contains Cross-site Request Forgery

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2012-5500Low

(Plone): Anonymous users can batch change titles of content items

Nov 6, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html
github.com / plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
plone.org / products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
Patch
plone.org / products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/16
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1