GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-5426-92w4-wvhv plone.app.dexterity has a Denial of Service due to excessive title or description length
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-57576
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- plone.app.dexterity
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-23
Affected packages
• PyPI plone.app.dexterity: >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.1 → fixed in 5.0.1
• PyPI plone.app.dexterity: >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.3 → fixed in 4.1.3
• PyPI plone.app.dexterity: < 3.2.3 → fixed in 3.2.3
Description
Impact
When creating content with a very large title or description field, Plone can become unresponsive. Even if the content loads, it can be hard to edit or delete, because the UI is unwieldy.
Patches
The problem has been patched in `plone.app.dexterity`.
• On Plone 6.2, upgrade to `plone.app.dexterity` 5.0.1.
• On Plone 6.1, upgrade to `plone.app.dexterity` 4.1.3.
• On Plone 6.0, upgrade to `plone.app.dexterity` 3.2.3.
Another part of this problem has been patched in `plone.app.contenttypes`. See this advisory.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds.
This problem was responsibly reported by Aldin Visnjic to the Plone/Zope Security Team. Thank you!
Note: The Plone/Zope Security team felt that the kind of fixes that were needed could be disruptive in corner cases if they were not careful. So they decided to develop the fixes publicly, giving the whole community the chance the review, and giving them the benefit from early feedback.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-57576 plone.app.dexterity is a content-type system for the Plone content management system, and plone.app.contenttypes provides Plone’s… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/security/advisories/GHSA-5426-92w4-wvhv web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57576 advisory
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/pull/433 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/commit/0d317df663823445200d0569a66a95b7e4a9c50d web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/commit/2fdceb120ca86682a408f3a14753cfcf5126d9d9 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/commit/411689047f9a3521899ae6992a9b0efbd0592a8f web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/commit/cbcef731c0882146b9bf30688cdc639d879878fb web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/commit/f3596538cf7670bb8bc27b0dfa0b1da41c8b8a3a web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/commit/fb45bfdb18f1dfb3ed55e477947a3df9a6ee9e20 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity package
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/releases/tag/3.2.3 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/releases/tag/4.1.3 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.dexterity/releases/tag/5.0.1 web