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CVE-2016-7251

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7251 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the MDS API in Microsoft SQL Server 2016. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.1) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified parameter, requiring user interaction to exploit and potentially leading to information disclosure or defacement. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sql_server:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0819 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (GDR)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (CU)
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2016-Nov/CVE-2016-7251Important

MDS API XSS Vulnerability

Nov 8, 2016

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-136
securityfocus.com / bid/94043
securitytracker.com / id/1037250