CVE-2011-5208

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

Backwpup: through 1.4.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-02/0663.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43565
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/changelog/
http://www.osvdb.org/71242
http://www.osvdb.org/71243
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-02/0663.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43565
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/changelog/
http://www.osvdb.org/71242
http://www.osvdb.org/71243

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