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CVE-2024-2294: Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone <= 1.2.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Directory Traversal

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.7 via the backup_name parameter in the backuply_download_backup function. This makes it possible for attackers to have an account with only activate_plugins capability to access arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. This only impacts sites hosted on Windows servers.

Affected products

• softaculous Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone: through 1.2.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/trunk/functions.php#L1615
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/trunk/main/ajax.php#L78
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3050547%40backuply&new=3050547%40backuply&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be3bd1f2-092c-47c4-a4e4-3365e107c57f?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/trunk/functions.php#L1615
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/trunk/main/ajax.php#L78
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3050547%40backuply&new=3050547%40backuply&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be3bd1f2-092c-47c4-a4e4-3365e107c57f?source=cve

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