CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-1000086

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The Periodic Backup Plugin did not perform any permission checks, allowing any user with Overall/Read access to change its settings, trigger backups, restore backups, download backups, and also delete all previous backups via log rotation. Additionally, the plugin was not requiring requests to its API be sent via POST, thereby opening itself to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

Risk Assessment

The lack of permission checks and the potential for CSRF attacks pose a serious risk to data security, allowing unauthorized users to manipulate backup data.

Recommendation

It is recommended to implement permission checks for all plugin operations and enforce the use of the POST method for API requests.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Periodic Backup Plugin did not perform any permission checks, allowing any user with Overall/Read access to change its settings, trigger backups, restore backups, download backups, and also delete all previous backups via log rotation. Additionally, the plugin was not requiring requests to its API be sent via POST, thereby opening itself to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS