CVE-2014-8603: Xcloner

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cloner.functions.php in the XCloner plugin 3.1.1 for WordPress and 3.5.1 for Joomla! allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the (1) file name when creating a backup or vectors related to the (2) $_CONFIG[tarpath], (3) $exclude, (4) $_CONFIG['tarcompress'], (5) $_CONFIG['filename'], (6) $_CONFIG['exfile_tar'], (7) $_CONFIG[sqldump], (8) $_CONFIG['mysql_host'], (9) $_CONFIG['mysql_pass'], (10) $_CONFIG['mysql_user'], (11) $database_name, or (12) $sqlfile variable.

Affected products

• Xcloner Xcloner: version 3.1.1 only; version 3.5.1 only

Published 2015-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.