VulnerabilityModified

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).

MEDIUM 5.4EPSS 0.96%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.96%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

CVSS 3.0: 5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS: 0.96% probability · 61th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-79
Affected: dotclear/dotclear
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 1.0% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.