What is CVE-2016-3688?

CVE-2016-3688 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dotcms, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-04-19.

How severe is CVE-2016-3688?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Dotcms

CVE-2016-3688

SQL injection vulnerability in dotCMS before 3.5 allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the c0-e3 parameter to dwr/call/plaincall/UserAjax.getUsersList.dwr.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2016-04-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Dotcms

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

dotcms.com/security/SI-32 (Vendor Advisory)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/5 (mailing-list)
packetstormsecurity.com/files/136548/DotCMS-3.3-SQL-Injection.html (Exploit)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/11 (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3688?: CVE-2016-3688 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dotcms, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-04-19.
How severe is CVE-2016-3688?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.