CVE-2010-0288

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-02-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

A typo in the administrator permission check in the ACL Manager plugin (plugins/acl/ajax.php) in DokuWiki before 2009-12-25b allows remote attackers to gain privileges and access closed wikis by editing current ACL statements, as demonstrated in the wild in January 2010.

Affected products

DokuWiki: through release_2009-02-14; 2004-07-04, 2004-07-07, 2004-07-12, 2004-07-21, 2004-07-25, 2004-08-08 (+22)

References

http://bugs.splitbrain.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=1847
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034729.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034831.html
http://osvdb.org/61710
http://secunia.com/advisories/38183
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-07.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1976
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11141
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37820
http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-01/17-dokuwiki-security
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0150
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55661

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