Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-6973

Title: Igniterealtime Openfire Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2015-6973

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Sep 16, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

64.82%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-6973: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in Ignite Realtime Openfire 3.10.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change a password via a crafted request to user-password.jsp, (2) add users via a crafted request to user-create.jsp, (3) edit server settings or (4) disable SSL on the server via a crafted request to server-props.jsp, or (5) add clients via a crafted request to plugins/clientcontrol/permitted-clients.jsp.

Impacted Vendors

ignite_realtime 1

igniterealtime 1

Reference Links

http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/AS-OPENFIRE-CSRF.txt http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133554/Openfire-3.10.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536470/100/0/threaded https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-50 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38192/ http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/AS-OPENFIRE-CSRF.txt http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133554/Openfire-3.10.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536470/100/0/threaded https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-50 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38192/

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-6973 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38192

View Code

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 16, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.