What is CVE-2024-45527?

CVE-2024-45527 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vanderbilt Redcap, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-09-02.

How severe is CVE-2024-45527?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

CSRF in Vanderbilt Redcap

CVE-2024-45527

REDCap 14.7.0 allows HTML injection via the project title of a New Project action. This can lead to resultant logout CSRF via index.php?logout=1, and can also be used to insert a link to an external phishing website.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2024-09-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (8.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 8th percentile — 8.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Vanderbilt Redcap — versions 14.7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

www.evms.edu/research/resources_services/redcap/redcap_change_log/ (Product)
github.com/ShellFighter/Reports/blob/main/Vanderbilt REDCap 14.7.0.md (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-45527?: CVE-2024-45527 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vanderbilt Redcap, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-09-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-45527?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.