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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-55248 EUVD-2026-67864GHSA-x5g3-w747-2h8qPYSEC-2026-3884

plone.app.portlets: Denial of service via RSS feed portlet

Published Aug 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

plone.app.portlets provides portlets and a Plone-specific user interface for plone.portlets. Prior to 5.0.8, 6.0.4, and 7.0.2, a member who can add an RSS portlet can set its feed URL to a very large response, causing src/plone/app/portlets/portlets/rss.py to download and retain excessive data in memory and deny service. The same RSS URL handling accepts internal hosts, IP addresses, single-word domains, and explicit ports, allowing server-side requests that can probe internal network services and open ports. A malicious feed item can also supply a JavaScript URL that is retained as the item link and can execute script when used by a victim. The affected logic includes _rss_feed_url_validator, _normal_url_validator, RSSFeed._retrieveFeed, RSSFeed._buildItemDict, and the FEED_DATA in-memory cache. This issue is fixed in versions 5.0.8, 6.0.4, and 7.0.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
plone plone.app.portlets < 5.0.8, >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.4, >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI plone-app-portlets >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2 7.0.2 GHSA-x5g3-w747-2h8q
PyPI plone-app-portlets >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.4 6.0.4 GHSA-x5g3-w747-2h8q
PyPI plone-app-portlets < 5.0.8 5.0.8 GHSA-x5g3-w747-2h8q
PyPI plone-app-portlets < 5.0.8 · >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.4 · >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2 5.0.8, 6.0.4, 7.0.2 PYSEC-2026-3884

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