CVE-2018-25288

StyleWriter 1.0 Denial of Service via Pattern Input

CVSS 6.9 MEDIUMEPSS 0.1%CWE-120

Vexday Risk Score

33Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

26 Apr 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

StyleWriter 1.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string. Attackers can paste a 6000-byte payload into the Pattern to Find or Advice Message fields in the Add Pattern dialog to trigger a denial of service condition.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

Editorsoftware · StyleWriter

public PoCs found — 1

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45250unverified

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References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45250 https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/stylewriter-denial-of-service-via-pattern-input http://www.editorsoftware.com http://www.editorsoftware.com/StyleWriter_Download.php