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CVE-2015-7984· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Horde before 5.2.8, Horde Groupware before 5.2.11, and Horde Groupware Webmail

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Horde before 5.2.8, Horde Groupware before 5.2.11, and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition before 5.2.11 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute arbitrary (1) commands via the cmd parameter to admin/cmdshell.php, (2) SQL queries via the sql parameter to admin/sqlshell.php, or (3) PHP code via the php parameter to admin/phpshell.php.

MediumCVSS 6.8 · v2.0—Proof of concept Fix available
Published
Nov 19, 2015
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
4.1% · 90th percentile
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CVSS
27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 4.1%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
hordegroupware
hordehorde application framework
debiandebian linux

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • debian debian linux8.0
  • horde groupware5.0.0 and later · before 5.2.11
  • horde horde application framework5.0.0 and later · before 5.2.8

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12php-hordebefore 5.2.8+debian0-15.2.8+debian0-1
Debian:8php-hordebefore 5.2.1+debian0-2+deb8u25.2.1+debian0-2+deb8u2

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    61This week
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    53Plan
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    52Plan
  • CVE-2017-7413In Horde_Crypt before 2.7.6, as used in Horde Groupware Webmail Edition through 5.2.17, OS Command Injection can occur if the attacker is an
    47Plan
  • CVE-2019-9858Remote code execution was discovered in Horde Groupware Webmail 5.2.22 and 5.2.17.
    41Plan
  • CVE-2008-7219Horde Kronolith H3 2.1 before 2.1.7 and 2.2 before 2.2-RC2; Nag H3 2.1 before 2.1.4 and 2.2 before 2.2-RC2; Mnemo H3 2.1 before 2.1.2 and H3
    41Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
debian:php-horde5.2.8+debian0-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

  • Exploit-DB entry ×1

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Exploit-DB entrywebapps2015-11-19

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. First PoC-1 d
  2. Published
  3. TodaySep 30, 2026+3968 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

    If successful

    Confidentiality
    P · data can be read
    Integrity
    P · data or configuration can be modified
    Availability
    P · the service can be disrupted
    Attack complexity
    M
    Confidentiality impact
    P
    Integrity impact
    P
    Availability impact
    P

    CVSS vector

    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

    nvd-primary

    Root cause

    State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

    A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

    Vulnerable

    ts
    app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

    Fixed

    ts
    app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

    Attack context

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