CVE-2015-3638

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-07-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

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.

Affected products

PhpMyBackupPro: through 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

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