Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability in Backuply Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-2294

4.9MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate And Clone
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 March 2024

What is CVE-2024-2294?

The Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.7 via the backup_name parameter in the backuply_download_backup function. This makes it possible for attackers to have an account with only activate_plugins capability to access arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. This only impacts sites hosted on Windows servers.

Affected Version(s)

Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone * <= 1.2.7

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/trunk...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/trunk...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.9
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dau Hoang Tai
.