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Plone

Enterprise CMS and document repository with strong security

Document Management ★ 311 stars Hard setup GPL-2.0

Plone is a mature open-source content management system widely used as a secure document repository and intranet. It offers fine-grained workflow, versioning, and permissions on every content item.

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Key features

  • Granular workflows
  • Content versioning
  • Strong security model
  • Extensible add-ons

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Battle-tested security
  • Highly customizable

Trade-offs

  • Steep learning curve
  • Heavy stack

Is Plone secure?

OSV.dev lists 1 published advisory for Plone. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory PYSEC-2017-53, published 2017-09-25 (3306 days ago), fixed in 4.0a1, 4.1a1, 4.2a1, 4.3a1, 4.3.7, 5.0rc2

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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