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CVE-2015-3640

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% 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 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.

Affected products

• PhpMyBackupPro: through 2.5

References

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

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