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CVE-2014-9253

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The default file type whitelist configuration in conf/mime.conf in the Media Manager in DokuWiki before 2014-09-29b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading an SWF file, then accessing it via the media parameter to lib/exe/fetch.php.

Affected products

• DokuWiki: through 2014-05-05c
• Mageia: 4.0

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0540.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1050
• http://security.szurek.pl/dokuwiki-20140929a-xss.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71671
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031369
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99291
• https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/commit/778ddf6f2cd9ed38b9db2d73e823b8c21243a960
• https://www.dokuwiki.org/changes
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0540.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1050
• http://security.szurek.pl/dokuwiki-20140929a-xss.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71671

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