CSRF in Smoothwall

CVE-2011-5284

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the web management interface in httpd/cgi-bin/shutdown.cgi in Smoothwall Express 3.1 and 3.0 SP3 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that perform a reboot via a request to cgi-bin/shutdown.cgi.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2014-12-31 · 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: 0.023 (82.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 82.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Smoothwall — versions 3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

osvdb.org/show/osvdb/70497 (vdb-entry)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99403 (vdb-entry)
packetstormsecurity.com/files/129698/SmoothWall-3.1-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-… (Exploit)
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16006 (Exploit, exploit)