CVE-2014-5194

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

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.

Affected products

Sphider: 1.3.6

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159715/Sphider-Search-Engine-1.3.6-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34189
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159715/Sphider-Search-Engine-1.3.6-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34189

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