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CVE-2016-9891
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/media.php and admin/media_item.php in Dotclear before 2.11 allows remote authenticated…
Medium5.4EPSS 0.96%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/media.php and admin/media_item.php in Dotclear before 2.11 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the upfiletitle or media_title parameter (aka the media title).
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 22 days later
· 22 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.96% · top 38% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/ticket/2224 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 95156 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/712559193a6e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/changeset/5536ac77e915 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://dotclear.org/blog/post/2016/12/28/Dotclear-2.11 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://smarterbitbybit.com/cve-2016-9891-dotclear-xss-vulnerability-in-version-2-10-4/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- 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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