CVE-2017-12980: Dokuwiki

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

DokuWiki through 2017-02-19c has stored XSS when rendering a malicious RSS or Atom feed, in /inc/parser/xhtml.php. An attacker can create or edit a wiki that uses RSS or Atom data from an attacker-controlled server to trigger JavaScript execution. The JavaScript can be in an author field, as demonstrated by the dc:creator element.

Affected products

  • Dokuwiki Dokuwiki: up to and including 2017-02-19c

Published 2017-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.