plone.app.portlets.portlets provides a Plone-specific user interface for plone.portlets, as well as a standard set of portlets that ship with Plone. Starting in version 5.0.0 and prior to versions 5.0.8, 6.0.4, and 7.0.2, the Classic portlet (plone.app.portlets.portlets.classic) used its user-supplied template/macro fields to build a TALES path expression that was then evaluated by the TAL path() helper. Because the value was interpreted as a full TALES expression, a user able to add or edit a Classic portlet could supply a crafted value that escapes simple path traversal and is evaluated as arbitrary code. This is exploitable by any authenticated user who can configure a Classic portlet - which, with the default role map, includes regular users on their personal dashboard. The result is code execution in the context of the Plone process, i.e. a privilege escalation across the trust boundary between an authenticated web user and the server-side process. The problem has been patched in plone.app.portlets 5.0.8, 6.0.4, and 7.0.2. Some workarounds are available. Restrict who can manage portlets: remove the plone.app.portlets.ManageOwnPortlets permission from untrusted roles, and limit Manage portlets to trusted administrators (usually this is already restricted to the Manager and Site Administrator roles). Where the Classic portlet is not needed, unregister it so it cannot be added. This would need to be done by editing a portlets.xml in your own code. One may also effectively disable showing the classic portlet by customising its template. In the Zope Management Interface go to the portalviewcustomizations tool, locate the classic.pt template and click it. Click the Customize button. Remove all text and replace it with <div>The classic portlet was disabled.</div>. (This is not a recommended way of customizing a template, but in this case it is quite effective.)
Remote Code Execution via TALES Injection: CVE requested https://github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/security/advisories/GHSA-rr49-f9g6-c9r5 severity 9.9 critical
Denial of service via iCalendar import: CVE-2026-55247 https://github.com/plone/plone.app.event/security/advisories/GHSA-r82h-mqw3-fc56 severity 9.1 critical
Denial of service via RSS feed portlet: CVE-2026-55248 https://github.com/plone/plone.app.portlets/security/advisories/GHSA-x5g3-w747-2h8q severity 9.1 critical
Denial of Service due to excessive title/description/filename length CVE requested severity 6.5 moderate. This has fixes in two packages, so two advisories: https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/security/advisories/GHSA-5426-92w4-wvhv https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/security/advisories/GHSA-8pcw-h6w9-h46g
Those were announced today (June 23, 2026).
Two more were announced the past week:
Denial of Service in icalendar: CVE-2026-55099 https://github.com/collective/icalendar/security/advisories/GHSA-cv84-9p8j-fj68 severity 7.5 high
Sandbox escape in RestrictedPython CVE-2026-55830 https://github.com/zopefoundation/RestrictedPython/security/advisories/GHSA-ffg3-p8fm-mjx2 severity 8.3 high
And one more was announced on June 5:
Stored XSS by spoofing mime type CVE-2026-54503 severity 4.3 moderate. This has fixes in two packages, so two advisories: https://github.com/plone/plone.app.textfield/security/advisories/GHSA-4r4f-gg25-rmg5 https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/security/advisories/GHSA-8rqh-vxpr-x77p
See the individual advisories for details. https://community.plone.org/t/security-vulnerability-announcement-plone-app-textfield-and-plone-restapi/23050 https://community.plone.org/t/plone-security-fixes-20260623/23085 Thanks,
Maurits van Rees Plone/Zope Security Team