VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-5196

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Published 2012-09-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in index/manager/fileUpload in Public Knowledge Project Open Journal Systems 2.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that upload PHP files.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18266 webapps php verified
mr_me · 2011-12-23

Open Conference/Journal/Harvester Systems 2.3.x - Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems{"endIncluding":"2.3.6"}
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.0
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.0.1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.1.5
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.1.6
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.1.7
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.1.8
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.1.9
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems1.1.10
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.0
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.0.1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.0.2-1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.1.1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.2
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.2.1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.2.2
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.2.3
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.2.4
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.0
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.1-2
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.2
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.2-1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.3
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.3-1
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.3-2
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.3-3
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.4
public_knowledge_projectopen_journal_systems2.3.5

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.