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CVE-2024-12330: WP Database Backup – Unlimited Database & Files Backup by Backup for WP <= 7.3 - Unauthenticated Database Back-Up Exposure

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: none known
• Published: 2025-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-530

Description

The WP Database Backup – Unlimited Database & Files Backup by Backup for WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 7.3 via publicly accessible back-up files. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including all information stored in the database.

Affected products

• databasebackup WP Database Backup – Unlimited Database & Files Backup by Backup for WP: through 7.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3209380%40wp-database-backup&new=3209380%40wp-database-backup&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3209387%40wp-database-backup&new=3209387%40wp-database-backup&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3f36839b-850e-4c39-aa61-4fd7a89cd5bc?source=cve

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