Everest Backup <= 2.1.9 - Sensitive Information Exposure via Log File

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2023-52185
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published December 29, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Joshua Chan
Description

The Everest Backup – WordPress Cloud Backup, Migration, Restore & Cloning Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to 2.2.0 (exclusive) via the plugin's log file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including the locations of backups.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug everest-backup (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.0
Patched Version
  • 2.2.0
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