Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Unscored CVE-2017-12980 EUVD-2017-4498GHSA-727h-w92q-ch5h

DokuWiki through 2017-02-19c has stored XSS when rendering a malicious RSS or Atom feed, in /inc/parser/xhtml.php. An attacker can create o…

Published Aug 21, 2017 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

DokuWiki through 2017-02-19c has stored XSS when rendering a malicious RSS or Atom feed, in /inc/parser/xhtml.php. An attacker can create or edit a wiki that uses RSS or Atom data from an attacker-controlled server to trigger JavaScript execution. The JavaScript can be in an author field, as demonstrated by the dc:creator element.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 dokuwiki 0.0.20180422.a-1 —
Debian 13 dokuwiki 0.0.20180422.a-1 —
Debian 12 dokuwiki 0.0.20180422.a-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS dokuwiki No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS dokuwiki No fix yet —

References