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CVE-2017-8912

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-8912 describes a critical vulnerability in CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) version 2.1.6, allowing remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary PHP code. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.2) requires high privileges but has low attack complexity, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and the vendor controversially considers this a feature rather than a bug.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cmsmadesimple:cms_made_simple:2.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.2HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-41997 · May 10, 2017
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0311 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 5,531 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osandamalith.com / 2017/05/11/cmsms-2-1-6-multiple-vulnerabilities
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/41997