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CVE record · CVE-2023-5505

BackWPup <= 4.0.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Directory Traversal

CVSS 6.8 MediumEPSS 0.0098 · 62nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Wordfence) at 17 Aug 2024, 08:37 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
wp_media BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin
  • affected 4.0.1 and earlier semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-5505
CNA
Wordfence
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Tags
Published
17 Aug 2024
Updated
8 Apr 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.8 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (Wordfence)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0098, the 62nd percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 17 Aug 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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