CVE-2012-2128

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in doku.php in DokuWiki 2012-01-25 Angua allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add arbitrary users. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the vendor, who states that it is resultant from CVE-2012-2129: "the exploit code simply uses the XSS hole to extract a valid CSRF token."

Published: 2012-08-27 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2012-2128 is rated Moderate Risk (46.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.38%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-2128

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.62% 0.38% -0.25%
2 2025-03-29 0.38% 0.62% +0.25%
3 2025-03-19 — 0.38% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-2128

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-2128

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-2128

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2012-2128 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (dokuwiki), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2128
ubuntu medium CVE-2012-2128 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dokuwiki), 19 status rows across 19 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 14, not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-2128

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-2128

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
andreas_gohr dokuwiki 2012-01-25 cpe:2.3:a:andreas_gohr:dokuwiki:2012-01-25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-2128

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