Skippy WP-DB Backup (Legacy Plugin) <= 1.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Directory Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2006-4208
CVSS Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published August 14, 2006
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher marc & shb from ssteam
Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in the Skippy WP-DB-Backup legacy plugin for WordPress 1.7 and earlier allows remote authenticated users with administrative privileges to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the backup parameter to edit.php.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-db-backup.php (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7
Patched Version
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