CVE-2016-7791

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7791

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7791.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7791

Published

2017-01-12T22:59:00.187Z

Modified

2026-07-08T10:53:41.585550Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/exponentcms/exponent-cms

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/exponentcms/exponent-cms

Events

Introduced

e4f3d5129dac15d1d634008f504055e2cf062c65

Last affected

e4f3d5129dac15d1d634008f504055e2cf062c65

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:exponentcms:exponent_cms:2.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.3.9"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.3.9"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*

2.3.9

v2.*

v2.3.9

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7791.json"