CVE-2018-6888
The User Permissions page (aka Admin/Users) suffers from critical flaw of Cross Site Request forgery: using a forged HTTP request, a malicious user can lead a user to unknowingly create / delete or modify a user account due to the lack of an anti-CSRF…
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A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 1.9%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
An issue was discovered in Typesetter 5.1. The User Permissions page (aka Admin/Users) suffers from critical flaw of Cross Site Request forgery: using a forged HTTP request, a malicious user can lead a user to unknowingly create / delete or modify a user account due to the lack of an anti-CSRF token.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.0 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.93% probability · 80th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 13 February 2018
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- typesettercms/typesetter
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.9% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://securitywarrior9.blogspot.in/2018/02/cross-site-request-forgery-type-setter.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44029/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://securitywarrior9.blogspot.in/2018/02/cross-site-request-forgery-type-setter.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44029/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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