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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-9106

CSV Injection (aka Excel Macro Injection or Formula Injection) exists in the export feature in the Acyba AcySMS extension before 3.5.1 for Joomla! via a value that is mishandled in a CSV export.

EXPLOIT ✓HIGH 8.8EPSS 6.44%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 6.4%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.

Description

CSV Injection (aka Excel Macro Injection or Formula Injection) exists in the export feature in the Acyba AcySMS extension before 3.5.1 for Joomla! via a value that is mishandled in a CSV export.

CVSS 3.0
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
6.44% probability · 94th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 30 March 2018
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-1236
Affected
acyba/acysms
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%21 September 2026: 5.27%22 September 2026: 6.44%27 October 2026: 6.44%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 5.3% on 21 September 2026 to 6.4% 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.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-44370source ↗Joomla! Component AcySMS 3.5.0 - CSV Macro Injectionphp · Sureshbabu Narvaneniwebapps30 March 2018yes

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.