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CVE-2020-11579

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 26.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-306

Description

An issue was discovered in Chadha PHPKB 9.0 Enterprise Edition. installer/test-connection.php (part of the installation process) allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disclose local files on hosts running PHP before 7.2.16, or on hosts where the MySQL ALLOW LOCAL DATA INFILE option is enabled.

Affected products

• Chadhaajay Phpkb: 9.0

References

• https://github.com/ShielderSec/CVE-2020-11579
• https://shielder.it/
• https://www.phpkb.com
• https://www.shielder.it/blog/mysql-and-cve-2020-11579-exploitation/
• https://github.com/ShielderSec/CVE-2020-11579
• https://shielder.it/
• https://www.phpkb.com
• https://www.shielder.it/blog/mysql-and-cve-2020-11579-exploitation/

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