CVE-2011-5208

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2011-5208 · Published 08/10/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-5208 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting backwpup (backwpup).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.3%, higher than 88.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
backwpup backwpup	`≤ 1.4.0`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the BackWPup plugin before 1.4.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the wpabs parameter to (1) app/options-view_log-iframe.php or (2) app/options-runnow-iframe.php.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-02/0663.html · Exploit
secunia.com/advisories/43565 · Vendor Advisory
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/changelog
osvdb.org/71242
osvdb.org/71243

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