SB2011071501 - Multiple vulnerabilities in DokuWiki

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SB2011071501 - Multiple vulnerabilities in DokuWiki

Published: July 15, 2011 Updated: August 11, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2011071501
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3727)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

DokuWiki 2009-12-25c allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file, which reveals the installation path in an error message, as demonstrated by lib/tpl/index.php and certain other files.


2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-2510)

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the RSS embedding feature in DokuWiki before 2011-05-25a Rincewind. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

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