🛡️ CVE-2020-7938 — plone

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Plone Privilege Escallation

plone.restapi in Plone 5.2.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to escalate their privileges up to the highest level.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2020-7938 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2020-7938 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • plone (from 5.2.0 up to 5.2.2)
  • plone-restapi (fixed in 6.2.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
plone.org (Web)
plone.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
plone 5.2.0 5.2.2
plone-restapi — 6.2.1

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