CVE-2018-6889
It suffers from a Host header injection vulnerability, Using this attack, a malicious user can poison the web cache or perform advanced password reset attacks or even trigger arbitrary user re-direction.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 6.7%. 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. It suffers from a Host header injection vulnerability, Using this attack, a malicious user can poison the web cache or perform advanced password reset attacks or even trigger arbitrary user re-direction.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 6.69% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 13 February 2018
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- Affected
- typesettercms/typesetter
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 5.4% on 21 September 2026 to 6.7% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
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/host-header-injection-type-setter-cms-51.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44028/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://securitywarrior9.blogspot.in/2018/02/host-header-injection-type-setter-cms-51.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44028/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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