BackupWordPress <= 3.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Disclosure

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-4931
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published February 23, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram
Description

The BackupWordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to information disclosure in versions up to, and including 3.12. This is due to missing authorization on the heartbeat_received() function that triggers on WordPress heartbeat. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above to retrieve back-up paths that can subsequently be used to download the back-up.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug backupwordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 3.12 - 3.12
Patched Version
  • 3.13
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