CVE-2006-5705: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in plugins/wp-db-backup.php in WordPress before 2.0.5 allow remote authenticated users to read or overwrite arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the (1) backup and (2) fragment parameters in a GET request.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 2.0.4; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only

Published 2006-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.