CVE-2011-5197

medium

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 Harvester Systems 2.3.1 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

Vendor	Product	Versions
public_knowledge_project	open_harvester_systems	`{"endIncluding":"2.3.1"}`
public_knowledge_project	open_harvester_systems	`1.0`
public_knowledge_project	open_harvester_systems	`1.0.1`
public_knowledge_project	open_harvester_systems	`2.0.0`
public_knowledge_project	open_harvester_systems	`2.0.1`
public_knowledge_project	open_harvester_systems	`2.3.0`

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.