CVE-2024-2294: CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in softaculous Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone
The Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.7 via the backup_name parameter in the backuply_download_backup function. This makes it possible for attackers to have an account with only activate_plugins capability to access arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. This only impacts sites hosted on Windows servers.
CVE-2024-2294: CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in softaculous Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone
Description
The Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.7 via the backup_name parameter in the backuply_download_backup function. This makes it possible for attackers to have an account with only activate_plugins capability to access arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. This only impacts sites hosted on Windows servers.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-03-07T17:29:38.209Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6dacb7ef31ef0b58a810
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:46:20 PM
Last updated: 2/25/2026, 9:50:32 PM
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