CVE-2006-5705

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in plugins/wp-db-backup.php in WordPress before 2.0.5 allow remote authenticated users to read or overwrite arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the (1) backup and (2) fragment parameters in a GET request.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.0.4; 2.0.2, 2.0.3

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/changes-in-wordpress-205/
http://secunia.com/advisories/22683
http://secunia.com/advisories/22942
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4226
http://wordpress.org/development/2006/10/205-ronan/
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-10.xml
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.027-wordpress.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20869
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4307
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153303
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/changes-in-wordpress-205/

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