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CVE-2022-4931

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2023-03-07 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

The BackupWordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to information disclosure in versions up to, and including 3.12. This is due to missing authorization on the heartbeat_received() function that triggers on WordPress heartbeat. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above to retrieve back-up paths that can subsequently be used to download the back-up.

Affected Platforms

Xibodevelopment Backupwordpress

Weakness Type

Unknown

References