An issue was discovered in Typesetter 5.1.
Priority LOW 39CWE-352Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.01926 80th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 2 exploit referencesTagged by NVD and the CNA
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:typesettercms:typesetter:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.1 | Vulnerable | Typesetter |
- cpe:2.3:a:typesettercms:typesetter:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.1 Vulnerable ·Typesetter
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-6888
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-94jh-6wqj-gfhf
References
More Typesetter vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-43315 Typesetter CMS Reflected XSS via Move Message Handling CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 4.8
- TI-2025-43314 Typesetter CMS Reflected XSS via Status.php CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 4.8
- TI-2020-15797 Typesetter CMS 5.x through 5.1 allows admins to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code via… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2018-05032 An issue was discovered in Typesetter 5.1. CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2022-09152 TypesetterCMS v5.1 was discovered to contain a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) which is… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2020-13638 Cross Site Scriptiong vulnerability in Typesetter 5.1 via the !1) className and !2)… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
Sources
- CVE-2018-6888 · CVE Program
- CVE-2018-6888 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-94jh-6wqj-gfhf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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