Cross-site scripting in Dotclear - CVE-2012-1039
Published: March 19, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.
An input validation error exists in Dotclear before 2.4.2 when processing the (1) login_data parameter to admin/auth.php; (2) nb parameter to admin/blogs.php; (3) type, (4) sortby, (5) order, or (6) status parameters to admin/comments.php; or (7) page parameter to admin/plugin.php. 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.
Affected software
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1039
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
- Exploit #4158 - Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - /admin/plugin.php page Parameter Cross-Site Scripting (August 11, 2020)
- Exploit #4159 - Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - /admin/comments.php Multiple Parameter Cross-Site Scripting (August 11, 2020)
- Exploit #4160 - Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - /admin/blogs.php nb Parameter Cross-Site Scripting (August 11, 2020)
- Exploit #4161 - Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - /admin/auth.php login_data Parameter Cross-Site Scripting (August 11, 2020)