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Pkp

First CVE: Sep 6, 2012Active for: 14 yearsTotal CVEs: 7

PKP (Public Knowledge Project) maintains a modest but widely used suite of scholarly publishing and journal-management software, with Open Journal Systems serving as its primary deployed product across academic institutions globally. The vendor's vulnerability profile concentrates on web-application security issues endemic to systems handling user input and session state, with recurrent weaknesses including cross-site request forgery, path traversal, cross-site scripting, and insufficient session expiration; these classes are characteristic of platforms managing editorial workflows and user authentication across distributed deployments. Current exploitation activity, severity distribution, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.

FAUCET AI Generated
7
Total CVEs
More Total CVEs than 88% of tracked vendors
1.2
Avg CVEs / Product / Year
More Avg CVEs / Product / Year than 74% of tracked vendors
7.2
Avg CVSS Score
Higher Avg CVSS Score than 54% of tracked vendors
0.0%
In CISA KEV
Bottom 1%

Trends Over Time

The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Pkp over time

Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
Sep 6, 2012
13 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Nov 1, 2023
996 days ago

Products(3 total)

Top CVEs

Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (7 CVEs).

7 CVEs · Highest risk first

CVEPublishedCVSSRiskKEVExploit
CVE-2012-1467MEDIUM
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the iBrowser plugin library, as used in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7, allow remote authenticated users to (1) delete or (2) ren
Sep 6, 20126.532NOYES
CVE-2012-1468MEDIUM
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allows remote authenticated users with the Author Role permission to execute arbitrary code by uploading a f
Sep 6, 20126.031NOYES
CVE-2012-1469MEDIUM
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allow remote attackers and remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTM
Sep 6, 20124.325NOYES
CVE-2023-5899HIGH
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitHub repository pkp/pkp-lib prior to 3.3.0-16.
Nov 1, 20238.824NONO
CVE-2023-5898HIGH
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GitHub repository pkp/pkp-lib prior to 3.3.0-16.
Nov 1, 20238.824NONO
CVE-2023-5889HIGH
Insufficient Session Expiration in GitHub repository pkp/pkp-lib prior to 3.3.0-16.
Nov 1, 20238.223NONO
CVE-2023-4695HIGH
Use of Predictable Algorithm in Random Number Generator in GitHub repository pkp/pkp-lib prior to 3.3.0-16.
Sep 1, 20238.120NONO
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CVE Severity & Scoring

Severity distribution of CVEs that affect this vendor's products7 CVEs
43%
57%
Severity distribution among all CVEs352,294 CVEs
45%
40%
11%
MediumHigh
Attack Vector
Local0 (0.0%)
Network4 (57.1%)
Unknown3 (42.9%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low3 (42.9%)
High1 (14.3%)
Unknown3 (42.9%)
User Interaction
None2 (28.6%)
Unknown3 (42.9%)
Required2 (28.6%)
Privileges Required
Low0 (0.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
None4 (57.1%)
Unknown3 (42.9%)

Exploit Exposure

Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (7 CVEs).

CISA KEV
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Metasploit
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Nuclei
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
ExploitDB
3 CVEs
42.9% of CVEs· 80th percentile

Social Chatter

An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Pkp.

Media Mentions

Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Pkp — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.

Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For Pkp's Products

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Top CWEs