CVE-2015-4631
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…
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 3.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Koha 3.20.1 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting / Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37389webapps, phppublished 26 Jun 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 37389 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132458/Koha-ILS-3.20.x-CSRF-XSS-Traversal-SQL-Injection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14418 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 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/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 37389 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-16-12/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14423 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20150625 SBA Research Vulnerability Disclosure - Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Koha ILS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-18-8/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-20-1/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14416 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://koha-community.org/koha-3-14-16-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-4650 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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