CVE-2016-6523

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-12-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the media manager in Dotclear before 2.10 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) q or (2) link_type parameter to admin/media.php.

Affected products

Dotclear: through 2.9.1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92272
https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/file/18dc878c1178/CHANGELOG
https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/40d0207e520d
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92272
https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/file/18dc878c1178/CHANGELOG
https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/40d0207e520d

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