CVE-2015-2172

DokuWiki before 2014-05-05d and before 2014-09-29c does not properly check permissions for the ACL plugins, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges and add or delete ACL rules via a request to the XMLRPC API.

Published: 2015-03-30 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-2172 is rated Moderate Risk (54.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.76%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-2172

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 1.99% 1.76% -0.22%
2 2025-03-29 1.76% 1.99% +0.22%
3 2025-03-17 — 1.76% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-2172

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-2172

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-2172

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-2172 not yet assigned 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-2015-2172
ubuntu low CVE-2015-2172 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dokuwiki), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 7, ignored 5, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2172

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-2172

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
dokuwiki dokuwiki >= 2014-05-05, < 2014-05-05d cpe:2.3:a:dokuwiki:dokuwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dokuwiki dokuwiki >= 2014-09-29, < 2014-09-29c cpe:2.3:a:dokuwiki:dokuwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-2172

URL Tags
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0093.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152994.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153062.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153266.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/02/2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72827 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/commit/4970ad24ce49ec76a0ee67bca7594f918ced2f5f Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/issues/1056 Third Party Advisory
https://www.dokuwiki.org/changes Vendor Advisory
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