CVE-2014-5194

medium
Published 2014-08-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Static code injection vulnerability in admin/admin.php in Sphider 1.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary PHP code into settings/conf.php via the _word_upper_bound parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sphidersphider1.3.6

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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