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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CVE-2026-46643

High
7.5/10

Summary

On POSIX, escapeshellarg('/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf') returns the literal string '/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf' with the single-quote characters included. "is_executable()" then looks for a file whose actual name contains those quote characters, which essentially never exists. The safe branch is dead code and $command always falls through to the raw, unescaped value. All versions prior to 1.7.1 are affected.

CWE-78 - OS Command Injection

The OS command injection weakness (also known as shell injection) is a vulnerability which enables an attacker to run arbitrary OS commands on a server. This is done by modifying the intended downstream OS command and injecting arbitrary commands, enabling the execution of unauthorized OS commands. This has the potential to fully compromise the application along with all of its data, and, if the compromised process does not follow the principle of least privileges, it may compromise other parts of the hosting infrastructure as well. This weakness is listed as number ten in the 'CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses'.

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