CVE-2011-4342

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in wp_xml_export.php in the BackWPup plugin before 1.7.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the wpabs parameter.

Affected products

Backwpup: through 1.7.1

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/99799/SOS-11-003.txt
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/328
http://secunia.com/advisories/43565
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backwpup-remote-and-local-codeexecution-vulnerability-sos-11-003
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17056
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/22/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/22/7
http://www.osvdb.org/71481
http://www.senseofsecurity.com.au/advisories/SOS-11-003.pdf
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/99799/SOS-11-003.txt
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/328
http://secunia.com/advisories/43565

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