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CVE-2016-20028

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-20028 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting ZKTeco ZKBioSecurity 3.0. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a logged-in administrator into visiting a malicious website, enabling the attacker to perform administrative actions. Specifically, it permits the addition of superadmin accounts without proper validity checks, leading to unauthorized administrative access. Rated Medium with a CVSS v3.1 score of 4.3, the vulnerability has low attack complexity over the network and can result in low integrity impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community attention regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
ZKTeco Inc.ZKTeco ZKBioSecurity
3.0.1.0_R_230CNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
LOW
SS Integrity
LOW
SS Availability
LOW
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
11.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 9th percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cxsecurity.com / issue/WLB-2016080268
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/116477
packetstormsecurity.com / files/138569
exploit-db.com / exploits/40325
vulncheck.com / advisories/zkteco-zkbiosecurity-cross-site-request-forgery-superadmin
zeroscience.mk / en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2016-5364.php