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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2006-2878 in the critical feed json

The spellchecker (spellcheck.php) in DokuWiki 2006/06/04 and earlier allows remote attackers to insert and execute arbitrary PHP code via "…

published 2006-06-07 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-2875

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.9%
EPSS 13.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The spellchecker (spellcheck.php) in DokuWiki 2006/06/04 and earlier allows remote attackers to insert and execute arbitrary PHP code via "complex curly syntax" that is inserted into a regular expression that is processed by preg_replace with the /e (executable) modifier.

Patch / fix

  • dokuwiki Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.0.20060309-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2878

Exploit prediction

13.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.