Low

plone.restapi vulnerable to Stored Cross Site Scripting with SVG image in user portrait

  • Disclosed: 21.09.2023
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:18

Impact

There is a stored cross site scripting vulnerability for SVG images uploaded in user portraits.

Note that a page that uses an image tag with an SVG image as source is never vulnerable, even when the SVG image contains malicious code. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would first need to upload an SVG image as user portrait, and then trick a user into following a link to this portrait.

Patches

A patch will be released in plone.restapi 8.43.3. This version is good for Plone 6.0, and for Plone 5.2 on Python 3.

In plone.restapi 7 or earlier there was no @portrait endpoint yet, so there is nothing to fix in that version. It is still vulnerable to this attack, and needs a fix in Zope 4. These two vulnerabilities share the same CVE: CVE-2023-42458.

Workarounds

You could remove the portrait field from the member data schema, and possibly remove all portraits that are already in the database, but this seems a bit drastic.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) plone-restapi >= 8.0.0, < 8.43.3 8.43.3

References

CVSS score 3.7/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79, CWE-80
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
plone-restapi
Disclosed
21.09.2023
Updated
11.10.2026 12:18

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-hc5c-r8m5-2gfh - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: plone-restapi

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
3
First → latest
01.2020 07.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 1
  • Medium 1
  • Low 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2020: 1
  2. 2021: 0
  3. 2022: 0
  4. 2023: 1
  5. 2024: 0
  6. 2025: 0
  7. 2026: 1
  1. Medium · 4.3 ghsa-8rqh-vxpr-x77p < 9.15.6, >= 10.0.0, < 10.0.1 9.15.6, 10.0.1
  2. plone.restapi vulnerable to Stored Cross Site Scripting with SVG image in user portrait this entry
    Low · 3.7 ghsa-hc5c-r8m5-2gfh >= 8.0.0, < 8.43.3 8.43.3
  3. High · 8.8 CVE-2020-7938 < 6.2.1 6.2.1

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