UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12979

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12979

    Published: 21 Aug 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-12979

    Summary:

    Details: DokuWiki through 2017-02-19c has stored XSS when rendering a malicious language name in a code element, in /inc/parser/xhtml.php. An attacker can create or edit a wiki with this element to trigger JavaScript execution.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-12979, https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/issues/2080, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12979

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dokuwiki

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.20140929.d-1
    0.0.20140929.d-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High