BulletProof Security <= 5.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2021-39327
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 16, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Vincent Rakotomanga
Description

The BulletProof Security WordPress plugin is vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure due to a file path disclosure in the publicly accessible ~/db_backup_log.txt file which grants attackers the full path of the site, in addition to the path of database backup files. This affects versions up to, and including, 5.1.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug bulletproof-security (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1
Patched Version
  • 5.2
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