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CVE-2016-6521
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Grails console (aka Grails Debug Console and Grails Web Console) 2.0.7, 1.5.10, and…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.82%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 43% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Grails console (aka Grails Debug Console and Grails Web Console) 2.0.7, 1.5.10, and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that execute arbitrary Groovy code via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.82% · top 43% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- [oss-security] 20160801 CVE Request: CSRF in Grails console (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160802 Re: CVE Request: CSRF in Grails console (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/54 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 92267 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/55 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160803 Grails Console is still vulnerable to CSRF CVE-2016-6521 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2016-7442 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2016-6521)Record last updated .