CVE-2018-8718
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Mailer Plugin 1.20 for Jenkins 2.111 allows remote authenticated users to send unauthorized mail as an arbitrary user via a /descriptorByName/hudson.tasks.Mailer/sendTestMail request.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 6.5%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Mailer Plugin 1.20 for Jenkins 2.111 allows remote authenticated users to send unauthorized mail as an arbitrary user via a /descriptorByName/hudson.tasks.Mailer/sendTestMail request.
- 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
- 6.52% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 5 June 2018
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- jenkins/mailer
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 5.3% on 21 September 2026 to 6.5% 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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/26/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103691Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2018-03-26/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44843/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/26/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103691Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2018-03-26/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44843/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.