CVE-2006-4208

published 2006-08-17

CVE-2006-4208: Directory traversal vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in Skippy WP-DB-Backup plugin for WordPress 1.7 and earlier allows remote authenticated users with…

Priority P3 33 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I N A N

EXPLOIT

Directory traversal vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in Skippy WP-DB-Backup plugin for WordPress 1.7 and earlier allows remote authenticated users with administrative privileges to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the backup parameter to edit.php.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 2.0.5-0.1 (bookworm)	wordpress 2.0.5-0.1 (bookworm)
skippy.net	wp-db_backup_plugin_for_wordpress	—	—
skippy.net	wp-db_backup_plugin_for_wordpress	—	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.0.5-0.1	2.0.5-0.1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.0.5-0.1	2.0.5-0.1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.0.5-0.1	2.0.5-0.1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 2.0.5-0.1	2.0.5-0.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 LOW

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