CVE-2015-3638

high

Published 2017-07-21 · Modified 2026-05-13

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

phpMyBackupPro before 2.5 does not validate integer input, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by injecting scripts via the path, filename, and period parameters to scheduled.php, and making requests to injected scripts, or by injecting PHP into a PHP configuration variable via a PHP variable variable.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/25/1

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
phpmybackuppro	phpmybackuppro	`{"endIncluding":"2.5"}`

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/25/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/04/4
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032250
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/25/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/04/4
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032250

CWEs

CWE-94

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