CVE-2015-7984

Exp

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Horde before 5.2.8, Horde Groupware before 5.2.11, and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition before 5.2.11 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute arbitrary (1) commands via the cmd parameter to admin/cmdshell.php, (2) SQL queries via the sql parameter to admin/sqlshell.php, or (3) PHP code via the php parameter to admin/phpshell.php.

Published: 2015-11-19 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-7984 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.13%). Core evidence: 2 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-2015-7984

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
38765 exploit_db edb 2015-11-19 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-7984

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 2026-02-25 1.33% 1.13% -0.20%
2 2026-01-10 1.48% 1.33% -0.15%
3 2025-06-28 1.48%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-7984

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-2015-7984

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-7984

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-7984 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (php-horde), 3 status rows across 3 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid): resolved 3. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7984
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-7984 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (php-horde), 12 status rows across 12 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 4, not-affected 4, DNE 2, released 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7984

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-7984

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
horde groupware >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.11 cpe:2.3:a:horde:groupware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
horde groupware >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.11 cpe:2.3:a:horde:groupware:*:*:*:*:webmail:*:*:*
horde horde_application_framework >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.8 cpe:2.3:a:horde:horde_application_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-7984

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