MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2015-4631

Koha vulnerability

CVSS
5.4
EPSS
3.7%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) 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 inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) tag parameter to opac-search.pl; the (2) value parameter to authorities/authorities-home.pl; the (3) delay parameter to acqui/lateorders.pl; the (4) authtypecode or (5) tagfield to admin/auth_subfields_structure.pl; the (6) tagfield parameter to admin/marc_subfields_structure.pl; the (7) limit parameter to catalogue/search.pl; the (8) bookseller_filter, (9) callnumber_filter, (10) EAN_filter, (11) ISSN_filter, (12) publisher_filter, or (13) title_filter parameter to serials/serials-search.pl; or the (14) author, (15) collectiontitle, (16) copyrightdate, (17) isbn, (18) manageddate_from, (19) manageddate_to, (20) publishercode, (21) suggesteddate_from, or (22) suggesteddate_to parameter to suggestion/suggestion.pl; or the (23) direction, (24) display or (25) addshelf parameter to opac-shelves.pl.
Affected vendor
Koha
Affected product
Koha
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2018-10-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-4631

  • Confirm whether Koha Koha is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-4631.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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