CVE-2018-6888

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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.

Published: 2018-02-12 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2018-6888 is rated Exploit Available (58.7/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.13%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2018-6888

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
44029 exploit_db edb 2018-02-13 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-6888

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-21 0.16% 0.13% -0.03%
2 2025-11-18 0.15% 0.16% +0.01%
3 2023-11-27 — 0.15% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2018-6888

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
8.0 3.0 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 2.1 5.9 [email protected]
6.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 6.8 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2018-6888

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2018-6888

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
typesettercms typesetter 5.1 cpe:2.3:a:typesettercms:typesetter:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2018-6888

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