🛡️ CVE-2018-12457 — express-cart

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-732 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

express-cart allows any user to create an admin user

Express-Cart before 1.1.6 allows remote attackers to create an admin user via an /admin/setup Referer header.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-12457 is classified as CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. A sensitive resource is assigned permissions that let unintended actors read or modify it.

Affected software

CVE-2018-12457 is recorded against 1 package.

  • express-cart

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 3 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
hackerone.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
snyk.io (Web)
www.npmjs.com (Web)
www.npmjs.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-732
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-02-03
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
express-cart — —

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