{"id":"CVE-2016-7251","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-7251","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T23:13:06.787Z","title":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the MDS API in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified parameter, aka \"MDS API XSS Vulnerability.\"","description":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the MDS API in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified parameter, aka \"MDS API XSS Vulnerability.\"","published":"2016-11-10T07:00:05.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:52:52.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secure@microsoft.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["microsoft/sql server"],"epss":{"score":0.0819,"percentile":0.94842,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.11441,"percentile":0.95874},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.0819,"percentile":0.94618}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (8.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.11441,"from":0.0819,"percentile":0.95874},"summary":"EPSS moved from 8.2% to 11.4% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94043","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037250","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-136","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94043","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037250","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-136","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7251","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}