CVE-2023-6266 Information

Description

The Backup Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to insufficient path and file validation on the BMI_BACKUP case of the handle_downloading function in all versions up to and including 1.3.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download back-up files which can contain sensitive information such as user passwords PII database credentials and much more.

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08801f53-3c57-41a3-a637-4b52637cc612?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/1.3.5/includes/initializer.php#L972 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/1.3.5/includes/initializer.php#L1048 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/1.3.7/includes/initializer.php#L1065