WordPress Core <= 2.0.3 - Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2008-0194
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published July 29, 2006
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in WordPress 2.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, delete arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service via a .. (dot dot) in the backup parameter in a wp-db-backup.php action to wp-admin/edit.php. NOTE: this might be the same as CVE-2006-5705.1.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.3
Patched Version
  • 2.0.4
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