PT-2017-7487 · Dotclear · Dotclear

Salvatore Bonaccorso · Published 2017-02-09 · Updated 2017-03-02 · CVE-2015-8831

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dotclear versions prior to 2.8.2

Description A cross-site scripting issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This is achieved via the author name in a comment.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.8.2, update to version 2.8.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the ability to post comments or validating and sanitizing the author name field in the admin/comments.php file to prevent malicious input.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8831

Affected Products

Dotclear

References · 14

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134353/dotclear-2.8.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://blog.curesec.com/article/blog/dotclear-281-XSS-94.html · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8831 · Security Note
• https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/65e65154dadf · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8831 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/05/4 · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/5 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8831 · Security Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Nov/59 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8831 · Vendor Advisory
• http://dotclear.org/blog/post/2015/10/25/Dotclear-2.8.2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/96377 · Note
• https://dotclear.org/blog/post/2015/10/25/Dotclear-2.8.2 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8831 · Note