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CVE-2017-7991

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Exponent CMS 2.4.1 and earlier has SQL injection via a base64 serialized API key (apikey parameter) in the api function of framework/modules/eaas/controllers/eaasController.php.

Affected products

• Exponent CMS: through 2.4.1

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Apr/78
• https://gist.github.com/404notf0und/ab59234d71fbf35b4926ffd646324f29
• https://github.com/exponentcms/exponent-cms/commit/67a9c2f0229de120431f3eecb0f5017075517105
• https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142258/Exponent-CMS-2.4.1-SQL-Injection.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Apr/78
• https://gist.github.com/404notf0und/ab59234d71fbf35b4926ffd646324f29
• https://github.com/exponentcms/exponent-cms/commit/67a9c2f0229de120431f3eecb0f5017075517105
• https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/142258/Exponent-CMS-2.4.1-SQL-Injection.html

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