CVE-2015-2172

Published: Mar 30, 2015Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-284

NVD MITRE

6.5CVSSMEDIUM

EPSS Score

Description

DokuWiki before 2014-05-05d and before 2014-09-29c does not properly check permissions for the ACL plugins, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges and add or delete ACL rules via a request to the XMLRPC API.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:LAccess Complexity

Low

Au:SAuthentication

Single

Impact

C:PConfidentiality

Partial

I:PIntegrity

Partial

A:PAvailability

Partial

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Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected Products

dokuwiki dokuwiki

On-prem

Web & CMS Plugins / forum-wiki

n/a n/a

dokuwikioss-projectWeb & CMS Plugins

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0093.html

advisories.mageia.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152994.html

lists.fedoraproject.org

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153062.html

lists.fedoraproject.org

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Timeline

Published

Mar 30, 2015

Last Updated

May 6, 2026

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