CVE-2015-4631

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Koha 3.14.x before 3.14.16, 3.16.x before 3.16.12, 3.18.x before 3.18.08, and 3.20.x before 3.20.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) tag parameter to opac-search.pl; the (2) value parameter to authorities/authorities-home.pl; the (3) delay parameter to acqui/lateorders.pl; the (4) authtypecode or (5) tagfield to admin/auth_subfields_structure.pl; the (6) tagfield parameter to admin/marc_subfields_structure.pl; the (7) limit parameter to catalogue/search.pl; the (8) bookseller_filter, (9) callnumber_filter, (10) EAN_filter, (11) ISSN_filter, (12) publisher_filter, or (13) title_filter parameter to serials/serials-search.pl; or the (14) author, (15) collectiontitle, (16) copyrightdate, (17) isbn, (18) manageddate_from, (19) manageddate_to, (20) publishercode, (21) suggesteddate_from, or (22) suggesteddate_to parameter to suggestion/suggestion.pl; or the (23) direction, (24) display or (25) addshelf parameter to opac-shelves.pl.

Published: 2018-10-18 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-4631 is rated Exploit Available (59.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.54%). Core evidence: 7 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-4631

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
37389 exploit_db edb 2015-06-26 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-4631

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.34% 0.54% +0.21%
2 2025-03-29 0.54% 0.34% -0.21%
3 2025-03-26 0.54%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-4631

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.3 2.7 [email protected]
3.5 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
6.8 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-4631

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-4631

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
koha koha >= 3.14.00, < 3.14.16 cpe:2.3:a:koha:koha:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
koha koha >= 3.16.00, < 3.16.12 cpe:2.3:a:koha:koha:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
koha koha >= 3.18.0, < 3.18.8 cpe:2.3:a:koha:koha:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
koha koha >= 3.20.00, < 3.20.1 cpe:2.3:a:koha:koha:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-4631

URL Tags
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14416 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14418 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14423 Exploit Issue Tracking
https://koha-community.org/koha-3-14-16-released/ Product Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-16-12/ Product Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-18-8/ Product Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-20-1/ Product Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132458/Koha-ILS-3.20.x-CSRF-XSS-Traversal-SQL-Injection.html Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jun/80 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37389/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.sba-research.org/2015/06/24/researchers-of-sba-research-found-several-critical-security-vulnerabilities-in-the-koha-library-software-via-combinatorial-testing/ Third Party Advisory
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