WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Backup and Restore Wordpress <= 1.50 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Backup Trigger

Description

The Backup and Restore WordPress – Backup Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.50. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ajax_queue_manual_backup() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger backups via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affects Plugins

No known fix

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Noah Stead (TurtleBurg)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-01-06 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2025-01-06 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2025-01-07 (about 1 year ago)

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