CVE-2016-10082: s9y Serendipity

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

include/functions_installer.inc.php in Serendipity through 2.0.5 is vulnerable to File Inclusion and a possible Code Execution attack during a first-time installation because it fails to sanitize the dbType POST parameter before adding it to an include() call in the bundled-libs/serendipity_generateFTPChecksums.php file.

Affected products

• s9y Serendipity: up to and including 2.0.5

Published 2016-12-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.