CVE-2016-5742: Sixapart Movable Type

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SQL injection vulnerability in the XML-RPC interface in Movable Type Pro and Advanced 6.x before 6.1.3 and 6.2.x before 6.2.6 and Movable Type Open Source 5.2.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Sixapart Movable Type: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.3 only; version 6.0.4 only; version 6.0.5 only; …
• Sixapart Movable Type Open Source: up to and including 5.2.13

Published 2017-01-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.