Bug 717146 (CVE-2011-2510)

Summary: CVE-2011-2510 dokuwiki: XSS in DokuWiki's RSS embedding mechanism
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-28 07:14:16 UTC
It was found that DokuWiki's RSS embedding mechanism did not properly
escape user-provided links. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, potentially leading to arbitrary
JavaScript code execution.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631818
[2] http://www.certa.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTA-2011-AVI-366/CERTA-2011-AVI-366.html
[3] http://www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Hotfix-Release-20110525a-Rincewind

Solution:
This issue has been addressed in upstream "2011-05-25 Rincewind" release:
[4] http://www.dokuwiki.org/changes

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-28 07:20:45 UTC
This issue affects the versions of the dokuwiki package, as shipped with
Fedora release of 14 and 15.

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This issue affects the versions of the dokuwiki package, as present within
EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 repositories. Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-28 07:21:48 UTC
CVE Request:
[5] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/28/5

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-28 07:22:50 UTC
Created dokuwiki tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-all [bug 717148]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 717149]

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-30 08:10:59 UTC
The CVE identifier of CVE-2011-2510 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/29/13