Database Backup for WordPress <= 2.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2022-1577
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published May 11, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Daniel Ruf

Description

The Database Backup for WordPress plugin before 2.5.2 does not have CSRF check in place when updating the schedule backup settings, which could allow an attacker to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack. This could lead to cases where attackers can send backup notification emails to themselves, which contain more details. Or disable the automatic backup schedule

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Vulnerability Details for Database Backup for WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-db-backup (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.5.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 2.5.2
Patched Version
  • 2.5.2

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