CVE-2022-0833: Church Admin < 3.4.135 - Unauthenticated Plugin's Backup Disclosure

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-03-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Church Admin WordPress plugin before 3.4.135 does not have authorisation and CSRF in some of its action as well as requested files, allowing unauthenticated attackers to repeatedly request the "refresh-backup" action, and simultaneously keep requesting a publicly accessible temporary file generated by the plugin in order to disclose the final backup filename, which can then be fetched by the attacker to download the backup of the plugin's DB data

Affected products

andy_moyle Church Admin: before 3.4.135 — fixed in 3.4.135

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: andy_moyle Church Admin 3.4.135. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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