CVE-2015-2172

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

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.

Affected products

DokuWiki: from 2014-05-05 before 2014-05-05d; from 2014-09-29 before 2014-09-29c — fixed in 2014-05-05d, 2014-09-29c

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: DokuWiki 2014-05-05d, 2014-09-29c. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0093.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152994.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153062.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153266.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/02/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72827
https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/commit/4970ad24ce49ec76a0ee67bca7594f918ced2f5f
https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/issues/1056
https://www.dokuwiki.org/changes
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0093.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152994.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153062.html

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