Dokuwiki is a lightweight, self-hosted wiki engine that typically runs in decentralized deployments across small-to-medium organizations and knowledge-management systems. Its vulnerability footprint is narrow—concentrated in the single Dokuwiki product itself—yet recurs persistently through application-layer weakness classes including cross-site scripting, improper input validation, authentication flaws, and resource-exhaustion conditions that reflect the risks of inline content handling and user-privilege management in wiki systems. Public exploit code has frequently accompanied Dokuwiki disclosures, and the combination of self-hosted deployment and web accessibility has historically made instances attractive targets for reconnaissance and privilege escalation. Defenders should prioritize timely patching of exposed Dokuwiki instances and treat input-validation and authentication advisories from this vendor as high-priority within wiki and documentation-serving environments; current exploitation activity and severity counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Dokuwiki over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (25 CVEs).
25 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2009-1960HIGH inc/init.php in DokuWiki 2009-02-14, rc2009-02-06, and rc2009-01-30, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via the | Jun 8, 2009 | 9.3 | 50 | NO | YES |
CVE-2010-0288HIGH 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 c | Feb 15, 2010 | 7.5 | 34 | NO | YES |
CVE-2017-12583MEDIUM DokuWiki through 2017-02-19b has XSS in the at parameter (aka the DATE_AT variable) to doku.php. | Aug 6, 2017 | 6.1 | 31 | NO | YES |
CVE-2018-15474CRITICAL CSV Injection (aka Excel Macro Injection or Formula Injection) in /lib/plugins/usermanager/admin.php in DokuWiki 2018-04-22a and earlier allows remote attackers to exfiltrate sensi | Sep 7, 2018 | 9.6 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-7964HIGH The sendRequest method in HTTPClient Class in file /inc/HTTPClient.php in DokuWiki 2016-06-26a and older, when media file fetching is enabled, has no way to restrict access to priv | Oct 31, 2016 | 8.6 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-26477HIGH An issue in Dokuwiki v.2025-05-14b "Librarian" [56.2] allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the media_upload_xhr() function in the media.php file | Apr 3, 2026 | 7.5 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2010-0287MEDIUM Directory traversal vulnerability in the ACL Manager plugin (plugins/acl/ajax.php) in DokuWiki before 2009-12-25b allows remote attackers to list the contents of arbitrary director | Feb 15, 2010 | 5.0 | 26 | NO | YES |
CVE-2017-18123HIGH The call parameter of /lib/exe/ajax.php in DokuWiki through 2017-02-19e does not properly encode user input, which leads to a reflected file download vulnerability, and allows remo | Feb 3, 2018 | 8.6 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-28919MEDIUM HTMLCreator release_stable_2020-07-29 was discovered to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the function _generateFilename. | May 12, 2022 | 6.1 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2017-12980MEDIUM DokuWiki through 2017-02-19c has stored XSS when rendering a malicious RSS or Atom feed, in /inc/parser/xhtml.php. An attacker can create or edit a wiki that uses RSS or Atom data | Aug 21, 2017 | 6.1 | 21 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (25 CVEs).
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