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WordPress Plugin: cyan-backup: CVE-2024-52390: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 11, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The CYAN Backup plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Solution

cyan-backup-plugin-cve-2024-52390
Title
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