VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2242

critical
Published 2017-01-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Exponent CMS 2.x before 2.3.7 Patch 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the sc parameter to install/index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.0
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.1
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.2
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.3
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.4
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.5
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.6
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.7
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.8
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.0.9
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.1.0
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.1.1
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.1.2
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.1.3
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.1.4
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.2.0
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.2.1
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.2.2
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.2.3
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.3.0
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.3.1
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.3.2
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.3.3
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.3.4
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.3.5
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.3.7
exponentcmsexponent_cms2.3.8

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.