Magento is one of the famous open source E-Commerce web application software.
In Magento official site, it will inrregularly release some custom patch to fix software vulnerability
https://www.magentocommerce.com/download
If customer would like to apply those patch file(s), customer may use PHP passthru() function to execute.
For example, customer may create a file, called aa4212.php (or other name), with the following content –
Then, using your browser, visit http://www.xxxxxxx.com/aa4212.php once, it shall have applied
Remember to delete your file – aa4212.php
Also, if you like to view the applied patches, you may use –
Remember to delete your file – aa4212.php