CVE-2014-8605

Backup, Restore and Migrate WordPress Sites With the XCloner Plugin <= 3.1.1 - Improper Access Control to Information Disclosure

2014-10-17 00:00
Larry W. Cashdollar

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.1.2
Affected Plugin
Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner
Affected Version
<= 3.1.1
CVSS
7.5High
Weakness type
CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
CVE
CVE-2014-8605
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At a glance

CVE-2014-8605 is a high-severity Improper Access Control vulnerability in the Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.1.1. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.1.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2014, reported by Larry W. Cashdollar.

Vulnerability Overview

The XCloner plugin 3.1.1 for WordPress and 3.5.1 for Joomla! stores database backup files with predictable names under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a backup file in administrators/backups/.

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 privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-284: Improper Access Control

Reaching this weakness in Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner <= 3.1.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper access control means the code decides what a caller may do using something other than their actual permissions, so the decision can be wrong without any check appearing to be missing.

Whoever can shape the request decides the answer, so the protected action runs for callers the code never meant to allow. For Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner the fix is 3.1.2: builds <= 3.1.1 are affected, anything from 3.1.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.1.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner 3.1.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8605https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6eab3497-bf77-43a8-962d-d63db7290777https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8605

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