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CVE-2016-4040

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the Workflow Screen in dotCMS before 3.3.2 allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the orderby parameter.

Affected products

• dotCMS core: through 3.3.1

References

• http://dotcms.com/security/SI-36
• https://github.com/dotCMS/core/commit/bc4db5d71dc67015572f8e4c6fdf87e29b854d02
• https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/8840
• http://dotcms.com/security/SI-36
• https://github.com/dotCMS/core/commit/bc4db5d71dc67015572f8e4c6fdf87e29b854d02
• https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/8840

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