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OJS

Software to manage scholarly journals

Content Management Systems ★ 1k stars Easy setup GPL-3.0-only

Open Journal Systems is open source software to manage scholarly journals.

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Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0-only license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Active community (1k GitHub stars)
  • Written in PHP

Is OJS secure?

OSV.dev lists 7 published advisories for OJS. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2024-7902, published 2024-08-17 (788 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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