phpMyBackupPro 2.5 and earlier does not properly escape the "." character in request parameters, which allows remote authenticated users wi…

published 2017-07-21 9y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-3678

cvss: 7.5; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.2%; EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

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Exploit prediction

1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.0	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

securitytracker.com /id/1032250
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2015/05/04/4
mailing-list, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-3640
NVD CVE-2015-3640

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