CVE-2022-2551 — Duplicator < 1.4.7 - Unauthenticated Backup Download

Description

The Duplicator WordPress plugin before 1.4.7 discloses the url of the a backup to unauthenticated visitors accessing the main installer endpoint of the plugin, if the installer script has been run once by an administrator, allowing download of the full site backup without authenticating.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
—	Duplicator – WordPress Migration Plugin	1.4.7 – < 1.4.7	1.4.7

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

WordPress Plugin Duplicator 1.4.6 - Unauthenticated Backup Download EDB-50992 · webapps · Aug 1, 2022

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.

WordPress Duplicator <1.4.7 - Authentication Bypass http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-2551.yaml

Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.