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CVE-2016-7135

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7135 is a directory traversal vulnerability affecting Plone CMS versions 5.x up to 5.0.6 and 4.2.x up to 4.3.11. This flaw allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files by manipulating the 'path' parameter in a 'getFile' action. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 4.9, it requires high privileges (PR:H) but has a low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to high confidentiality impact (C:H) without affecting integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0258 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 3,563 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 5.0.7
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 4.3.12
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: conga

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-m7f9-65wr-pwchmedium

Plone vulnerable to filesystem information leak

May 14, 2022
redhatCVE-2016-7135Low

plone: Filesystem information leak

Aug 30, 2016

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/139110/Plone-CMS-4.3.11-5.0.6-XSS-Traversal-Open-Redirection.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2016/Oct/80
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
plone.org / security/hotfix/20160830/filesystem-information-leak
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/09/05/4
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/09/05/5
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/539572/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/92752