CVE-2015-8831

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/comments.php in Dotclear before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the author name in a comment.

Affected products

Dotclear: through 2.8.1

References

http://dotclear.org/blog/post/2015/10/25/Dotclear-2.8.2
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134353/dotclear-2.8.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Nov/59
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/05/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/07/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96377
https://blog.curesec.com/article/blog/dotclear-281-XSS-94.html
https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/65e65154dadf
http://dotclear.org/blog/post/2015/10/25/Dotclear-2.8.2
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134353/dotclear-2.8.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Nov/59
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/05/4

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