CVE-2024-13907

Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid <= 1.16.8 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery

2025-02-26 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.16.9
Affected Plugin: Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid
Affected Version: <= 1.16.8
CVSS: 4.9Medium
Weakness type: CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE: CVE-2024-13907

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At a glance

CVE-2024-13907 is a medium-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the Total Upkeep WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.16.8. It carries a CVSS score of 4.9 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Administrator level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.16.9; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by ngosytuan & quyetnt.

Vulnerability Overview

The Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.8 via the 'download' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Total Upkeep <= 1.16.8 carries this weakness at download, and reaching it takes an account at Administrator level or above. Server-side request forgery means the application fetches a URL supplied by the caller, turning the server into a proxy for requests the attacker could not make directly.

The request originates from inside the hosting network, which is how these flaws reach cloud metadata endpoints, internal admin panels and services that trust local traffic. For Total Upkeep the fix is 1.16.9: builds <= 1.16.8 are affected, anything from 1.16.9 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.16.9, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Administrator access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Total Upkeep 1.16.9 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13907 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/21da92d2-c38d-4a12-b850-bd0b580aaa54 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13907

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid

CVSS Vector

4.9

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredHigh
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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