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CVE-2018-16975

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16975 is a critical PHP code execution vulnerability affecting Elefant CMS versions prior to 2.0.7. An attacker can exploit insufficient input validation in the stylesheet creation process to upload and execute malicious PHP code. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability poses a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve full compromise of the affected system with low attack complexity. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elefantcms:elefant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0369 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: elefant/cmsFixed in: 2.0.7
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-x2w2-qgv6-8xrmcritical

Elefant CMS PHP Code Execution Vulnerability

May 13, 2022

References

github.com / jbroadway/elefant/commit/0795ab57c7ffa53ff4af57e229f6d9680fa54a21
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / jbroadway/elefant/issues/286
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / jbroadway/elefant/releases/tag/elefant_2_0_7_stable
Release Notes