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WordPress Snap Creek Duplicator Plugin File Download Vulnerability

CVE-2020-11738 · WordPress Snap Creek Duplicator Plugin · Published 2020-04-13

How bad would it be?

7.5 out of 10

CVSS rates it high.

How likely is it to be used?

98%

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, among the top 1% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).

Is it already being used?

Yes

CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 1641 days ago (2022-05-03).

What CISA says to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

WordPress Snap Creek Duplicator plugin contains a file download vulnerability when an administrator creates a new copy of their site that allows an attacker to download the generated files from their Wordpress dashboard. This vulnerability affects Duplicator and Dulplicator Pro.

nvd.nist.gov

What the flaw is

The Snap Creek Duplicator plugin before 1.3.28 for WordPress (and Duplicator Pro before 3.8.7.1) allows Directory Traversal via ../ in the file parameter to duplicator_download or duplicator_init.

From the NVD.

Fixes and advisories

snapcreek.comVendor Advisory
snapcreek.comVendor Advisory

Learn this

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Understand the kind of weakness behind this flaw. These resources teach the weakness, rather than reproduce this specific CVE. Follow the vendor's advice above to fix the affected product.

Path traversal

A supplied file path escapes the directory the application intended to allow.

CWE-22 · CISA KEV; NVD record: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0; NVD record: nvd@nist.gov

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