CVE-2024-0842 Backuply - Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone <= 1.2.6 - Denial of Service
Unauthenticated attackers can cause denial of service by making excessive requests to a specific backup plugin file, exhausting server resources.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-0842?
CVE-2024-0842 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in softaculous Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone, published on 9 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.6. This is due to direct access of the backuply/restore_ins.php file and. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make excessive requests that result in the server running out of resources.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0842?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Softaculous Backuply.
How do I fix CVE-2024-0842?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0842 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-0842 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-0842 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-3rwv-jrrg-99x3.