CVE-2015-5534

Exp

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Oxwall before 1.8 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) put the website under maintenance via the maintenance_enable parameter or (2) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the maintenance_text parameter to admin/pages/maintenance.

Published: 2015-11-02 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-5534 is rated High Exploit Risk (72/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.33%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.36% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-5534

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
38581 exploit_db edb 2015-10-30 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-5534

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 2026-06-15 0.97% 2.33% +1.36%
2 2026-03-03 1.18% 0.97% -0.21%
3 2025-06-27 1.18%

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-5534

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 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:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-5534

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-5534

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
oxwall oxwall <= 1.7.4 cpe:2.3:a:oxwall:oxwall:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-5534

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