CVE-2016-9891

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/media.php and admin/media_item.php in Dotclear before 2.11 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the upfiletitle or media_title parameter (aka the media title).

• CWE-79

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95156Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/changeset/5536ac77e915Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/ticket/2224Issue Tracking
• https://dotclear.org/blog/post/2016/12/28/Dotclear-2.11Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
• https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/712559193a6eRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
• https://smarterbitbybit.com/cve-2016-9891-dotclear-xss-vulnerability-in-version-2-10-4/Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95156Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/changeset/5536ac77e915Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/ticket/2224Issue Tracking
• https://dotclear.org/blog/post/2016/12/28/Dotclear-2.11Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
• https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/712559193a6eRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
• https://smarterbitbybit.com/cve-2016-9891-dotclear-xss-vulnerability-in-version-2-10-4/Third Party Advisory

Published

Dec 29, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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