CVE-2011-5196: Public Knowledge Project Open Journal Systems

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in index/manager/fileUpload in Public Knowledge Project Open Journal Systems 2.3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that upload PHP files.

Affected products

• Public Knowledge Project Open Journal Systems: up to and including 2.3.6; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.5 only; version 1.1.6 only; …

Published 2012-09-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.