Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Dotclear before 2.4.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) login_data parameter to admin/auth.php; (2) nb parameter to admin/blogs.php; (3) type, (4) sortby, (5) order, or (6) status parameters to admin/comments.php; or (7) page parameter to admin/plugin.php.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 4
- Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/auth.php?login_data' Cross-Site Scripting EDB-36888 · webapps · Feb 29, 2012 · verified
- Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/blogs.php?nb' Cross-Site Scripting EDB-36889 · webapps · Feb 29, 2012 · verified
- Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/comments.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities EDB-36890 · webapps · Feb 29, 2012 · verified
- Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/plugin.php?page' Cross-Site Scripting EDB-36891 · webapps · Feb 29, 2012 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- https://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/HTB23074
- http://dotclear.org/blog/post/2012/02/11/Dotclear-2.4.2
- dotclear-multiple-xss(73565) vdb-entry
- 52221 vdb-entry
- 20120229 Multiple XSS in Dotclear mailing-list
- 48209 third-party-advisory