CVE-2015-7316 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.1) Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in plone. A fix is available for plone — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Plone Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2015-7316 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,238 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Plone's URL checking infrastructure includes a method for checking if URLs valid and located in the Plone site. By passing HTML into a specially crafted url containing <script, %3Cscript, javascript:, or javascript%3A, Cross-site Scripting can be achieved.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | plone | ≥ 3.3&&< 3.3.7 | 3.3.7pip install --upgrade 'plone==3.3.7' |
| 🐍PyPI | plone | ≥ 4.0&&< 4.0.11 | 4.0.11pip install --upgrade 'plone==4.0.11' |
| 🐍PyPI | plone | ≥ 4.1&&< 4.1.7 | 4.1.7pip install --upgrade 'plone==4.1.7' |
| 🐍PyPI | plone | ≥ 4.2&&< 4.2.8 | 4.2.8pip install --upgrade 'plone==4.2.8' |
| 🐍PyPI | plone | ≥ 4.3&&< 4.3.7 | 4.3.7pip install --upgrade 'plone==4.3.7' |
| 🐍PyPI | plone | all versions | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for plone, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update plone to 3.3.7 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2015-7316 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2015-7316 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2015-7316. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2015-7316 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2015-7316 across PyPI dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.