CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7791

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-01-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

Exponent CMS 2.3.9 suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability in /install/index.php. An attacker can upload an evil 'exploit.tar.gz' file to the website, then extract it by visiting '/install/index.php?install_sample=../../files/exploit', which leads to arbitrary code execution.

Affected configurations

• exponentcms exponent cms 2.3.9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References