# CVE-2025-61668: @plone/volto vulnerable to potential DoS by invoking specific URL by anonymous user

- Also known as: GHSA-M8RJ-PPPH-MJ33
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 16.34.1, 17.22.2, 18.27.2, 19.0.0-alpha.6
- Published: 2025-10-02 · Updated: 2025-10-03

## Affected

- plone volto: fixed in 16.34.1; from 17.0.0, fixed in 17.22.2; from 18.0.0, fixed in 18.27.2; from 19.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 19.0.0-alpha.6
- @plone/volto (npm): fixed in 16.34.1
- @plone/volto (npm): from 17.0.0, fixed in 17.22.2
- @plone/volto (npm): from 18.0.0, fixed in 18.27.2
- @plone/volto (npm): from 19.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 19.0.0-alpha.6

## Description

Volto is a ReactJS-based frontend for the Plone Content Management System. Versions 16.34.0 and below, 17.0.0 through 17.22.1, 18.0.0 through 18.27.1, and 19.0.0-alpha.1 through 19.0.0-alpha.5, an anonymous user could cause the NodeJS server part of Volto to quit with an error when visiting a specific URL. This issue is fixed in versions 16.34.1, 17.22.2, 18.27.2 and 19.0.0-alpha.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on plone volto, @plone/volto, upgrade to a fixed version (16.34.1, 17.22.2, 18.27.2, 19.0.0-alpha.6) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/plone/volto/security/advisories/GHSA-m8rj-ppph-mj33
- https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/7412
- https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/7413
- https://github.com/plone/volto/commit/58d9f82d2d50ca9a87edbe16fed91762e57c109c
- https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/16.34.1
- https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/17.22.2
- https://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/19.0.0-alpha.6
- http://github.com/plone/volto/releases/tag/18.27.2

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