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CVE-2017-12979

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

DokuWiki through 2017-02-19c has stored XSS when rendering a malicious language name in a code element, in /inc/parser/xhtml.php. An attacker can create or edit a wiki with this element to trigger JavaScript execution.

Affected products

• DokuWiki: through 2017-02-19c

References

• https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/issues/2080
• https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/issues/2080

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