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CVE-2015-2172 (GCVE-0-2015-2172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-30 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:10
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-02-24 00:00
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