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CVE-2015-4630
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2018-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-352
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.
Affected products
- Koha Community Koha: from 3.14.00 before 3.14.16; from 3.16.00 before 3.16.12; from 3.18.0 before 3.18.8; from 3.20.00 before 3.20.1 — fixed in 3.14.16, 3.16.12, 3.18.8, 3.20.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Koha Community Koha 3.14.16, 3.16.12, 3.18.8, 3.20.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14423
- https://koha-community.org/koha-3-14-16-released/
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-16-12/
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-18-8/
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-20-1/
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132458/Koha-ILS-3.20.x-CSRF-XSS-Traversal-SQL-Injection.html
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/80
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37389/
- https://www.sba-research.org/2015/06/24/researchers-of-sba-research-found-several-critical-security-vulnerabilities-in-the-koha-library-software-via-combinatorial-testing/
- https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14423
- https://koha-community.org/koha-3-14-16-released/
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-16-12/
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