CVE-2023-5897 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitHub repository pkp/customLocale prior to

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitHub repository pkp/customLocale prior to 1.2.0-1.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitHub repository pkp/customLocale prior to 1.2.0-1.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
pkp	pkp/customLocale	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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

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: 2023-11-01T00:00:41.904Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-27T20:37:26.233Z

09References

• huntr.com — https://huntr.com/bounties/7c215b8e-63f6-4146-b8e3-8482c731876f
• github.com — https://github.com/pkp/customLocale/commit/407ba30f12f78efe79122591c1d85709c10b6…