{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8831","details":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/comments.php in Dotclear before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the author name in a comment.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:45:31Z","published":"2017-02-09T15:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-8831"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8831"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://hg.dotclear.org/dotclear/rev/65e65154dadf"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://dotclear.org/blog/post/2015/10/25/Dotclear-2.8.2"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/05/4"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8831"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"dotclear","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/dotclear@2.8.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.7.5+dfsg-1","2.8.0+dfsg-1","2.8.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"2.8.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1","binary_name":"dotclear"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8831.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}