CVE-2015-8831
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/comments.php in Dotclear before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the author name in a comment.
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/comments.php in Dotclear before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the author name in a comment.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.07% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-02-09 15:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 08:29Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-03-06
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- a6b3c4088f714e5cc156d03464c32f0df6c20019535f47a91c47fa16c53a1037
05 Affected products
06 References
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134353/dotclear-2.8.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160306 Re: CVE Request: Dotclear: XSS vulnerability in comments managment page and media exclusion control enforcementhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/5
- blog.curesec.comhttps://blog.curesec.com/article/blog/dotclear-281-XSS-94.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160305 CVE Request: Dotclear: XSS vulnerability in comments managment page and media exclusion control enforcementhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/05/4
- dotclear.orghttp://dotclear.org/blog/post/2015/10/25/Dotclear-2.8.2
- www.securityfocus.com96377http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96377
- hg.dotclear.orghttps://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/65e65154dadf
- seclists.org20151114 dotclear 2.8.1: XSShttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Nov/59
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- dotclear No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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