What is CVE-2016-10008?

CVE-2016-10008 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dotcms, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2018-02-19.

How severe is CVE-2016-10008?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Dotcms

CVE-2016-10008

SQL injection vulnerability in the "Content Types > Content Types" screen in dotCMS before 3.7.2 and 4.x before 4.1.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the _EXT_STRUCTURE_direction parameter.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2018-02-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (68.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Dotcms

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

security.elarlang.eu/cve-2016-10007-and-cve-2016-10008-2-sql-injection-vulnerab… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10008?: CVE-2016-10008 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dotcms, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2018-02-19.
How severe is CVE-2016-10008?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.