# CVE-2024-12209: WpHealth WP Umbrella - LFI

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-12209 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-12209

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** WpHealth WP Umbrella: Update Backup Restore & Monitoring
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-98 (Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion'))
- **Tags:** cms, wordpress

## Description

The WP Umbrella: Update Backup Restore & Monitoring plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 2.17.0 via the 'filename' parameter of the 'umbrella-restore' action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute arbitrary files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where images and other “safe” file types can be uploaded and included.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-12209](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12209) is a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in the WP Umbrella: Update Backup Restore & Monitoring plugin for WordPress. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to include and execute arbitrary files on the server via the 'filename' parameter of the 'umbrella-restore' action, potentially leading to code execution and sensitive data exposure.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 30th of June 2025.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2024-12209 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Exploitation of CVE-2024-12209 involves sending a crafted request to the vulnerable plugin's 'umbrella-restore' action with a malicious 'filename' parameter.

## Timeline

- 2024-12-08: CVE Published. CVE-2024-12209 is published to NVD.
- 2025-06-30: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-12209 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-07-09: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-12209 for the first time.

## References

- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3202883%40wp-health&new=3202883%40wp-health&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-health/tags/v2.16.4/src/Actions/RestoreRouter.php#L45
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c74ce3e8-cab9-4cc6-a1ad-1e51f7268474?source=cve

## Live exploitation data

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