From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 05:17:08 CDT

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TITLE:
WordPress WP-DB Backup Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21486

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21486/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
WP-DB Backup 1.x (plugin for WordPress)
http://secunia.com/product/11452/

DESCRIPTION:
ssteam has reported a vulnerability in the WP-DB Backup plugin for
WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose
sensitive information.

Input passed to the "backup" parameter in edit.php isn't properly
sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to disclose the
content of arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.

Example:
http://[host]/wp-admin/edit.php?page=wp-db-backup.php&backup=../../../../../[file]

Successful exploitation requires administrative privileges.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch.
http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-content/plugins/wp-db-backup.php?rev=4095&format=raw

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
marc and shb, ssteam

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.skippy.net/blog/2006/08/14/bugtraq-wordpress-database-backup/

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