An issue was discovered in Typesetter 5.1.

published 2018-02-12 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-18633

cvss: 8.0; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.9%; EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

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.

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Timeline

2018-02-12 Published
2018-02-13 First public exploit (EDB-44029)

Exploit prediction

1.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

EDB-44029 TypeSetter CMS 5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery webapps, 2018-02-13
securitywarrior9.blogspot.in https://securitywarrior9.blogspot.in/2018/02/cross-site-request-forgery-type-setter.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.0	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/44029/
exploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
securitywarrior9.blogspot.in /2018/02/cross-site-request-forgery-type-setter.html
exploit, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-6888
NVD CVE-2018-6888

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