CVE-2016-7790: Exponentcms Exponent CMS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Exponentcms Exponent CMS: version 2.3.9 only

Published 2017-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.