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Debian: CVE-2017-12980: dokuwiki -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-12980: dokuwiki -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/21/2017
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-dokuwiki

References

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