What is CVE-2018-6888?

CVE-2018-6888 is a high-severity vulnerability in Typesettercms Typesetter, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2018-02-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-6888?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.

CSRF in Typesettercms Typesetter

CVE-2018-6888

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.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2018-02-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (79.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Typesettercms Typesetter — versions 5.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

securitywarrior9.blogspot.in/2018/02/cross-site-request-forgery-type-setter.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44029/ (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-6888?: CVE-2018-6888 is a high-severity vulnerability in Typesettercms Typesetter, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2018-02-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-6888?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.