CVE-2013-2743

high

Published 2013-04-02 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

importbuddy.php in the BackupBuddy plugin 1.3.4, 2.1.4, 2.2.25, 2.2.28, and 2.2.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a crafted integer in the step parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ithemes	backupbuddy	`1.3.4`
ithemes	backupbuddy	`2.1.4`
ithemes	backupbuddy	`2.2.4`
ithemes	backupbuddy	`2.2.25`
ithemes	backupbuddy	`2.2.28`
wordpress	wordpress	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.