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CVE-2014-8336

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The "Sql Run Query" panel in WP-DBManager (aka Database Manager) plugin before 2.7.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging failure to sufficiently limit queries, as demonstrated by use of LOAD_FILE in an INSERT statement.

Affected products

• WP-DBManager: through 2.7.1

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/3
• http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/wordpress/plugins/wp-dbmanager-2.7.1/index.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97694
• https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-dbmanager/commit/7037fa8f61644098044379190d1d4bf1883b8e4a
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/#developers
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/21/3
• http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/wordpress/plugins/wp-dbmanager-2.7.1/index.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97694
• https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-dbmanager/commit/7037fa8f61644098044379190d1d4bf1883b8e4a
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/#developers

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