CVE-2015-3640

high
Published 2017-07-21 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
7.5

Description

phpMyBackupPro 2.5 and earlier does not properly escape the "." character in request parameters, which allows remote authenticated users with knowledge of a web-accessible and web-writeable directory on the target system to inject and execute arbitrary PHP scripts by injecting scripts via the path, filename, and dirs parameters to scheduled.php, and making requests to injected scripts.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpmybackupprophpmybackuppro{"endIncluding":"2.5"}

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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