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high 8.8

CVE-2018-11538 in the critical feed json

servlet/UserServlet in SearchBlox 8.6.6 has CSRF via the u_name, u_passwd1, u_passwd2, role, and X-XSRF-TOKEN POST parameters because of CS…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-3565

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.5%
EPSS 12.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

servlet/UserServlet in SearchBlox 8.6.6 has CSRF via the u_name, u_passwd1, u_passwd2, role, and X-XSRF-TOKEN POST parameters because of CSRF Token Bypass.

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-44801)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

12.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-44801 SearchBlox 8.6.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery webapps, 2018-05-30
  • gurelahmet.com https://gurelahmet.com/cve-2018-11538-csrf-privilege-escalation-creation-of-an-administrator-account-on-searchblox-8-6-6/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/147977/SearchBlox-8.6.6-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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