CVE-2014-8605: Xcloner

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XCloner plugin 3.1.1 for WordPress and 3.5.1 for Joomla! stores database backup files with predictable names under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a backup file in administrators/backups/.

Affected products

• Xcloner Xcloner: version 3.1.1 only; version 3.5.1 only

Published 2015-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.