CVE-2016-4315
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in WSO2 Carbon 4.4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of privileged…
- 5.7MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in WSO2 Carbon 4.4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of privileged users for requests that shutdown a server via a shutdown action to server-admin/proxy_ajaxprocessor.jsp.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- WSO2 Carbon 4.4.5 - Denial of Service / Cross-Site Request Forgery (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 40242webapps, jsppublished 16 Aug 2016Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 40242 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
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 | Medium5.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- https://docs.wso2.com/display/Security/Security+Advisory+WSO2-2016-0101 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WSO2-CARBON-v4.4.5-CSRF-DOS.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 92473 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20160813 WSO2-CARBON v4.4.5 CSRF / DOS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138332/WSO2-Carbon-4.4.5-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Denial-Of-Service.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 40242 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_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-2016-5315 (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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