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CVE-2016-7790

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 3.94% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-01-12 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
remote code execution arbitrary code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2016-7790
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.94%

Original NVD Description

Exponent CMS 2.3.9 suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability in /install/index.php. An attacker can upload 'php' file to the website through uploader_paste.php, then overwrite /framework/conf/config.php, which leads to arbitrary code execution.