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Critical CVE
CVSS 9.83 sources verified·1 min read
By Lyrie Threat Intelligence·6/17/2026

CRITICAL: CVE-2020-7941 (CVSS 9.8) — plone plone

CVE: CVE-2020-7941

CVSS: 9.8 (3.1) — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: CRITICAL

Status: Critical advisory

Affected

  • plone plone

Summary

A privilege escalation issue in plone.app.contenttypes in Plone 4.3 through 5.2.1 allows users to PUT (overwrite) some content without needing write permission.

Verified Sources

References

  • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/1
  • https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121
  • https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-for-overwriting-content
  • https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1
  • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/1
  • https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121
  • https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-for-overwriting-content
  • https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1

_Validated by the Lyrie Threat Intelligence Pipeline — 3 independent sources confirmed before publication. No speculation._

Lyrie Verdict

A vulnerability of this severity is exactly what Lyrie's anti-rogue-AI defense is built for: continuous, autonomous monitoring that doesn't wait for human reaction time.

Validated sources

  1. [1]NVD
  2. [2]GitHub Advisory
  3. [3]MITRE