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CVE-2011-5208

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-5208 describes multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the BackWPup plugin for WordPress, specifically versions prior to 1.4.1. These flaws allow unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files on the server by manipulating the 'wpabs' parameter in 'app/options-view_log-iframe.php' or 'app/options-runnow-iframe.php'. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:backwpup:backwpup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0326 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2011-02/0663.html
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/43565
Vendor Advisory
wordpress.org / extend/plugins/backwpup/changelog
osvdb.org / 71242
osvdb.org / 71243