CVE-2015-4630 Cross-site request forgery in n/a

High 8.0 Published 18 Oct 2018 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can exploit CSRF flaws in Koha to hijack administrator sessions, create users, or grant superlibrarian privileges.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2015-4630?

CVE-2015-4630 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Oct 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Koha 3.14.x before 3.14.16, 3.16.x before 3.16.12, 3.18.x before 3.18.08, and 3.20.x before 3.20.1 allow remote attackers to (1) hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create a user via a request to members/memberentry.pl or (2) give a user superlibrarian permission via a request to members/member-flags.pl or (3) hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the addshelf parameter to opac-shelves.pl.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4630?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Koha Koha.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4630?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-4630 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2015-4630 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4630 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-85vr-q6xj-xf78.