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Vulnerability record · CVE-2010-0288 · published 15 February 2010

CVE-2010-0288: Dokuwiki permissions and access controls vulnerability

Dokuwiki · Dokuwiki

A typo in the administrator permission check in the ACL Manager plugin (plugins/acl/ajax.php) in DokuWiki before 2009-12-25b allows remote attackers to gain privileges and access closed wikis by editing current ACL statements, as demonstrated in the wild in January 2010.

7.5 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 11% · top 4.3% CWE-264 · Permissions and access controls
7.5CVSS 2.0 base score
11%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
24References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

A typo in the administrator permission check in the ACL Manager plugin (plugins/acl/ajax.php) in DokuWiki before 2009-12-25b allows remote attackers to gain privileges and access closed wikis by editing current ACL statements, as demonstrated in the wild in January 2010.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://bugs.splitbrain.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=1847
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034729.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034831.html
http://osvdb.org/61710
http://secunia.com/advisories/38183 Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-07.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1976
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11141
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37820
http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-01/17-dokuwiki-security
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0150
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55661
http://bugs.splitbrain.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=1847
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034729.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034831.html
http://osvdb.org/61710
http://secunia.com/advisories/38183 Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201301-07.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1976
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/11141
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37820
http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-01/17-dokuwiki-security
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0150
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55661

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2010-0288), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.