VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1039

medium
Published 2012-03-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36888 webapps php verified
High-Tech Bridge SA · 2012-02-29

Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/auth.php?login_data' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-36889 webapps php verified
High-Tech Bridge SA · 2012-02-29

Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/blogs.php?nb' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-36890 webapps php verified
High-Tech Bridge SA · 2012-02-29

Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/comments.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-36891 webapps php verified
High-Tech Bridge SA · 2012-02-29

Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/plugin.php?page' Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
dotcleardotclear{"endIncluding":"2.3.1"}
dotcleardotclear1.2.1
dotcleardotclear1.2.2
dotcleardotclear1.2.3
dotcleardotclear1.2.4
dotcleardotclear1.2.5
dotcleardotclear1.2.6
dotcleardotclear1.2.7
dotcleardotclear1.2.8
dotcleardotclear2.0
dotcleardotclear2.0.1
dotcleardotclear2.0.2
dotcleardotclear2.1
dotcleardotclear2.1.1
dotcleardotclear2.1.3
dotcleardotclear2.1.4
dotcleardotclear2.1.5
dotcleardotclear2.1.6
dotcleardotclear2.1.7
dotcleardotclear2.2
dotcleardotclear2.2.1
dotcleardotclear2.2.2
dotcleardotclear2.2.3
dotcleardotclear2.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.