CVE-2016-9891
medium
CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.4
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/media.php and admin/media_item.php in Dotclear before 2.11 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the upfiletitle or media_title parameter (aka the media title).
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
64%
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| dotclear | dotclear | {"endIncluding":"2.10.4"} | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95156
- https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/changeset/5536ac77e915
- https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/ticket/2224
- https://dotclear.org/blog/post/2016/12/28/Dotclear-2.11
- https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/712559193a6e
- https://smarterbitbybit.com/cve-2016-9891-dotclear-xss-vulnerability-in-version-2-10-4/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95156
- https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/changeset/5536ac77e915
- https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/ticket/2224
- https://dotclear.org/blog/post/2016/12/28/Dotclear-2.11
- https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/712559193a6e
- https://smarterbitbybit.com/cve-2016-9891-dotclear-xss-vulnerability-in-version-2-10-4/
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.