CSRF in Public Knowledge Project Open Journal Systems

CVE-2011-5196

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in index/manager/fileUpload in Public Knowledge Project Open Journal Systems 2.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that upload PHP files.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2012-09-23 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (70.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 70.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Public Knowledge Project Open Journal Systems — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

secunia.com/advisories/47330 (Exploit, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
osvdb.org/77995 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18266 (Exploit, exploit)