Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone <= 1.2.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Directory Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2024-2294
CVSS Medium (4.9)
Publicly Published March 15, 2024
Last Updated March 16, 2024
Researcher Dau Hoang Tai
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug backuply (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.7
Patched Version
  • 1.2.8
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