CVE-2016-8905

high
Published 2016-11-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
8.8

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the JSONTags servlet in dotCMS before 3.3.1 allows remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the sort parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/dotCMS/core/pull/8468/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/dotCMS/core/pull/8460/

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
dotcmsdotcms{"endIncluding":"3.3"}

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.