When you visit a page where you need to login, Plone 2.5-5.1rc1 sends you to the login form with a 'came_from' parameter set to the previous url. After you login, you get redirected to the page you tried to view before. An attacker might try to abuse this by letting you click on a specially crafted link. You would login, and get redirected to the site of the attacker, letting you think that you are still on the original Plone site. Or some javascript of the attacker could be executed. Most of these types of attacks are already blocked by Plone, using the `isURLInPortal` check to make sure we only redirect to a page on the same Plone site. But a few more ways of tricking Plone into accepting a malicious link were discovered, and fixed with this hotfix.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-01-03T18:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:35:36.029Z

Reserved: 2018-01-03T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2017-1000481

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-01-03T18:29:00.400

Modified: 2018-01-18T22:47:36.237

Link: CVE-2017-1000481

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-11-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-1000481 - Bugzilla