Backup Migration, CVE-2023-6972

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-6972
Home page URL: Security reports for Backup Migration
Application: Backup Migration
Published on: Dec 23, 2023
Research Description: The Backup Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.9 via the 'content-backups' and 'content-name', 'content-manifest', or 'content-bmitmp' and 'content-identy' HTTP headers. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files, including the wp-config.php file, which can make site takeover and remote code execution possible.
Affected versions: max 1.4.0.
Status: vulnerable