Backup, Restore and Migrate WordPress Sites With the XCloner Plugin 4.2.1 - 4.2.12 - Unprotected AJAX Actions

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2020-35948
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published August 18, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

An issue was discovered in the XCloner Backup and Restore plugin before 4.2.13 for WordPress. It gave authenticated attackers the ability to modify arbitrary files, including PHP files. Doing so would allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution. The xcloner_restore.php write_file_action could overwrite wp-config.php, for example. Alternatively, an attacker could create an exploit chain to obtain a database dump.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug xcloner-backup-and-restore (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 4.2.1 - 4.2.12
Patched Version
  • 4.2.153
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