CVE-2014-8334 (GCVE-0-2014-8334)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-31 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:18
VLAI
Summary
The WP-DBManager (aka Database Manager) plugin before 2.7.2 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) $backup['filepath'] (aka "Path to Backup:" field) or (2) $backup['mysqldumppath'] variable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-10-16 00:00
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