Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the ACL Manager plugin (plugins/acl/ajax.php) in DokuWiki before 2009-12-25c a
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the ACL Manager plugin (plugins/acl/ajax.php) in DokuWiki before 2009-12-25c allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify access control rules, and other unspecified requests, via unknown vectors.
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- Feb 15, 2010
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 1.8% · 77th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-352
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Report tools
Action score
28
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 1.8%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| dokuwiki | dokuwiki | cpe:2.3:a:dokuwiki:dokuwiki |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- dokuwiki dokuwikiup to release_2009-02-14 inclusive
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-07-04
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-07-07
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-07-12
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-07-21
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-07-25
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-08-08
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-08-15a
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-08-22
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-09-12
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-09-25
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-09-30
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-11-01
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-11-02
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2004-11-10
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2005-01-14
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2005-01-15
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2005-01-16a
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2005-02-06
- dokuwiki dokuwiki2005-02-18
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | dokuwiki | before 0.0.20090214b-3.1 | 0.0.20090214b-3.1 |
| Debian:5.0 | dokuwiki | before 0.0.20080505-4+lenny1 | 0.0.20080505-4+lenny1 |
Same product
dokuwiki: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2009-1960inc/init.php in DokuWiki 2009-02-14, rc2009-02-06, and rc2009-01-30, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include an44Plan
- CVE-2018-15474CSV Injection (aka Excel Macro Injection or Formula Injection) in /lib/plugins/usermanager/admin.php in DokuWiki 2018-04-22a and earlier all39Monitor
- CVE-2017-18123The call parameter of /lib/exe/ajax.php in DokuWiki through 2017-02-19e does not properly encode user input, which leads to a reflected file35Monitor
- CVE-2016-7964The sendRequest method in HTTPClient Class in file /inc/HTTPClient.php in DokuWiki 2016-06-26a and older, when media file fetching is enable35Monitor
- CVE-2010-0288A typo in the administrator permission check in the ACL Manager plugin (plugins/acl/ajax.php) in DokuWiki before 2009-12-25b allows remote a33Monitor
- CVE-2019-25338Dokuwiki 2018-04-22b - Username Enumeration27Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| debian:dokuwiki | 0.0.20090214b-3.1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- M
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
nvd-primary
Root cause
State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-352 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);Fixed
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
- bugs.splitbrain.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=1853
- freshmeat.net/projects/dokuwiki/tags/security-fix
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034729.html
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034831.html
- osvdb.org/61708
- secunia.com/advisories/38205
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-07.xml
- www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1976
- www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-01/17-dokuwiki-security
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.