CVE-2023-5626 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitHub repository pkp/ojs prior to 3

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitHub repository pkp/ojs prior to 3.3.0-16.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitHub repository pkp/ojs prior to 3.3.0-16.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
pkp	pkp/ojs	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-10-17T23:22:41.615Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-13T16:20:28.980Z

09References

• huntr.dev — https://huntr.dev/bounties/c99279c1-709a-4e7b-a042-010c2bb44d6b
• github.com — https://github.com/pkp/ojs/commit/99a9f393190383454aa5ddffedffc89596f6c682