Exponentcms maintains a narrowly scoped content-management system whose vulnerability profile, despite limited product breadth, ranks among the more prominent in the landscape. Vulnerabilities affecting this vendor skew strongly toward critical-severity outcomes and frequently acquire public exploit code, reflecting the systemic nature of the web-application weaknesses that recur across its codebase. The exposure concentrates in Exponent CMS itself and clusters around input-handling and injection flaws—notably SQL injection, cross-site scripting, improper input validation, and insecure file uploads—alongside information-disclosure issues that are characteristic of applications with weak input sanitization and access controls. These weakness classes in combination create a high-value target for remote compromise, particularly where instances are internet-exposed and updates lag. Current exploitation activity and severity counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Exponentcms over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (61 CVEs).
61 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2016-7400CRITICAL Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Exponent CMS before 2.4.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) id parameter in an activate_address address | Feb 7, 2017 | 9.8 | 36 | NO | YES |
CVE-2016-2242CRITICAL 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. | Jan 23, 2017 | 9.8 | 35 | NO | NO |
CVE-2013-3294HIGH Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Exponent CMS before 2.2.0 release candidate 1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) src or (2) username par | Feb 11, 2014 | 7.5 | 33 | NO | YES |
CVE-2017-7991CRITICAL Exponent CMS 2.4.1 and earlier has SQL injection via a base64 serialized API key (apikey parameter) in the api function of framework/modules/eaas/controllers/eaasController.php. | Apr 22, 2017 | 9.8 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-8900CRITICAL Exponent CMS version 2.3.9 suffers from a Object Injection vulnerability in framework/modules/core/controllers/expTagController.php related to change_tags. | May 24, 2019 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-7784CRITICAL SQL injection vulnerability in the getSection function in framework/core/subsystems/expRouter.php in Exponent CMS 2.3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL | Mar 7, 2017 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-7780CRITICAL SQL injection vulnerability in cron/find_help.php in Exponent CMS 2.3.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the version parameter. | Mar 7, 2017 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-7565CRITICAL install/index.php in Exponent CMS 2.3.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the sc array parameter. | Feb 13, 2017 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-7791CRITICAL 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 | Jan 12, 2017 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2016-9481CRITICAL In framework/modules/core/controllers/expCommentController.php of Exponent CMS 2.4.0, content_id input is passed into showComments. The method showComments is defined in the expCom | Nov 29, 2016 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (61 CVEs).
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