CVE-2015-6517

Exp

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpLiteAdmin 1.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that drop database tables via the droptable parameter to phpliteadmin.php.

Published: 2015-08-18 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-6517 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.60%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.30% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. 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-2015-6517

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
37515 exploit_db edb 2015-07-07 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-6517

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 0.30% 2.60% +2.30%
2 2025-06-13 0.39% 0.30% -0.09%
3 2025-04-16 0.39%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-6517

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-2015-6517

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-6517

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2015-6517 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (phpliteadmin), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6517

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-6517

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
phpliteadmin_project phpliteadmin 1.1 cpe:2.3:a:phpliteadmin_project:phpliteadmin:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-6517

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