Medium
Security advisory
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.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-12980
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-12980
Complete source record
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"summary": "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.",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:42.917067574Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2017-08-21T07:29:00.313+00:00"
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