SQL Injection Affecting exponentcms/exponent-cms package, versions [,2.4.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EXPONENTCMSEXPONENTCMS-2364657
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5879  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-89  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for exponentcms/exponent-cms.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to SQL Injection. An issue was discovered in Exponent CMS 2.4.1. This is a blind SQL injection that can be exploited by un-authenticated users via an HTTP GET request and which can be used to dump database data out to a malicious server, using an out-of-band technique, such as select_loadfile(). The vulnerability affects source_selector.php and the following parameter: src.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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