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CVE-2013-4198

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4198 describes a bypass vulnerability in the forgotten password email functionality of Plone versions 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1. This allows remote authenticated users to circumvent restrictions on password changes. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating low severity with network access, low attack complexity, requiring authentication, and resulting in a partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0112 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (2)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 4.2.6
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 4.3.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-qjxf-6pr8-j87vmedium

Plone's authenticated users able to alter their password despite of policy definition

May 17, 2022

References

plone.org / products/plone-hotfix/releases/20130618
Patch
plone.org / products/plone/security/advisories/20130618-announcement
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / oss-sec/2013/q3/261