CVE-2012-2129

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in doku.php in DokuWiki 2012-01-25 Angua allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the target parameter in an edit action.

Published: 2012-08-27 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-2129 is rated High Exploit Risk (63/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.56%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.73% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-2129

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-2129

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 2026-06-15 0.83% 2.56% +1.73%
2 2026-02-13 0.89% 0.83% -0.06%
3 2026-01-10 0.89%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-2129

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N 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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-2129

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-2129

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2012-2129 low 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-2012-2129
ubuntu medium CVE-2012-2129 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dokuwiki), 16 status rows across 16 suites (hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 11, not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-2129

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-2129

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

References for CVE-2012-2129

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