CVE-2012-1039
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Dotclear before 2.4.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Dotclear before 2.4.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 4 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB4 entries
- Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/auth.php?login_data' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36888webapps, phppublished 29 Feb 2012Verified
- Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/blogs.php?nb' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36889webapps, phppublished 29 Feb 2012Verified
- Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/comments.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36890webapps, phppublished 29 Feb 2012Verified
- Dotclear 2.4.1.2 - '/admin/plugin.php?page' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36891webapps, phppublished 29 Feb 2012Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 39 days later
· 39 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- https://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/HTB23074 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://dotclear.org/blog/post/2012/02/11/Dotclear-2.4.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- dotclear-multiple-xss(73565) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 52221 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20120229 Multiple XSS in Dotclear (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 48209 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-1077 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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