CVE-2020-37246

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Published 2026-05-16 · Modified 2026-05-18

CVSS v3

6.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

6.2

Description

Supsystic Backup 2.3.9 contains a local file inclusion vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read and delete arbitrary files by manipulating the download path parameter. Attackers can modify the download parameter in admin.php requests with directory traversal sequences to access sensitive files like /etc/passwd or delete files via the removeAction parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

62%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/backup-by-supsystic.zip
https://supsystic.com/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49545
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wordpress-plugin-supsystic-backup-local-file-inclusion

CWEs

CWE-98

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