CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-4208
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-08-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
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 configurations
• skippy.net wp-db backup plugin for wordpress 1.6
• skippy.net wp-db backup plugin for wordpress 1.7
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21486 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1401 securityreason.com
- http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4095 trac.wordpress.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443181/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19504 Exploit
- http://www.skippy.net/blog/category/wordpress/plugins/wp-db-backup/ www.skippy.net
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3280 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28375 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21486 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1401 securityreason.com
- http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4095 trac.wordpress.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443181/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19504 Exploit
- http://www.skippy.net/blog/category/wordpress/plugins/wp-db-backup/ www.skippy.net
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3280 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28375 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com