CVE-2014-5194

Sphider vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

4.2%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Static code injection vulnerability in admin/admin.php in Sphider 1.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary PHP code into settings/conf.php via the _word_upper_bound parameter.

Affected vendor

Sphider

Affected product

Sphider

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

Published

2014-08-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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