Backup by Supsystic <= 2.3.11 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Download/Deletion

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published February 8, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Erik David Martin
Description

The Backup by Supsystic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Download and Deletion in versions up to, and including, 2.3.11. This is due to various path traversal attacks and missing CSRF checks. This makes it possible for authenticated Admin+ attackers to download and delete any file on the vulnerable server and also allows unauthenticated attackers to delete files.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug backup-by-supsystic (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.3.11
Patched Version
  • 2.3.12
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