GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-r82h-mqw3-fc56 plone.app.event vulnerable to denial of service via iCalendar import
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-55247
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- plone.app.event
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-28
Affected packages
• PyPI plone.app.event: < 5.2.4 → fixed in 5.2.4
• PyPI plone.app.event: >= 6.0.0a1, < 6.0.1 → fixed in 6.0.1
Description
Impact
By abusing the iCalendar import functionality, a logged-in editor could take the whole site offline, make the server reach into the internal network and read calendar files off disk (SSRF), and store XSS.
Patches
The problem has been patched in `plone.app.event`.
• For Plone 6.2: upgrade to `plone.app.event` 6.0.1
• For Plone 6.1: upgrade to `plone.app.event` 5.2.4
• For Plone 6.0: upgrade to `plone.app.event` 5.2.4
Workarounds
In the site root, go to the Security tab of the Zope Management Interface (`manage_access`), look for the "plone.app.event: Import Ical" permission, and grant this only to the Manager role. Then only users with the Manager role can use the ical import form.
There is no workaround for the stored XSS in the URL field of events.
The vulnerabilities were discovered by Timothy Dudley and responsibly reported to the Plone Security Team. Thank you!
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-55247 plone.app.event provides the event content type for Plone. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.event/security/advisories/GHSA-r82h-mqw3-fc56 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.event/commit/1e3c83c15a24d1a789cdb012593505bc5620e28e web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.event/commit/4de5eb3ea9e4f7f1781622e6d64fc086629d1437 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.event package
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.event/releases/tag/5.2.4 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.event/releases/tag/6.0.1 web