CVE-2018-6888 Cross-site request forgery in n/a

High 8.0 Published Updated

Attackers can force authenticated users to create, delete, or modify accounts via forged requests due to missing CSRF tokens in Typesetter.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2018-6888?

CVE-2018-6888 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 12 Feb 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-6888?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Typesettercms Typesetter.

How do I fix CVE-2018-6888?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-6888 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-6888 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6888 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-94jh-6wqj-gfhf.

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