CVE-2015-3640
HighSummary
phpMyBackupPro version 2.5 and earlier does not properly escape the '.' character in request parameters, allowing remote authenticated users to inject and execute arbitrary PHP scripts.
Risk Assessment
The organization may be at risk of malicious code execution by users who have access to directories on the server, potentially leading to serious security breaches.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update phpMyBackupPro to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and implement appropriate security measures for directory access on the server.
Other vulnerabilities in phpMyBackupPro
See all- CVE-2015-3637High
There is an SQL injection vulnerability in phpMyBackupPro when run in multi-user mode before version 2.5, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the username and password parameters.
- CVE-2015-4180High
Directory traversal vulnerability in get_file.php in phpMyBackupPro versions 2.1 through 2.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the view parameter.
- CVE-2015-3639High
phpMyBackupPro version 2.5 and earlier does not properly sanitize input strings, allowing remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by storing a crafted string in a user configuration file.
- CVE-2015-3638High
phpMyBackupPro before 2.5 does not validate integer input, allowing remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by injecting scripts via the path, filename, and period parameters to scheduled.php.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.