# CVE-2024-13609: 1 Click WordPress Migration Plugin – 100% FREE for a limited time - Information Disclosure

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-13609 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-2024-13609

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Background Noise. Continuous low-level scanning or exploitation attempts are observed, mostly opportunistic and automated.
- **CVSS score:** 5.9
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** 1clickmigration 1 Click WordPress Migration Plugin – 100% FREE for a limited time
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)
- **Tags:** wordpress, cms

## Description

The 1 Click WordPress Migration Plugin – 100% FREE for a limited time plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.1 via the class-ocm-backup.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including usernames and their respective password hashes during a short window of time in which the backup is in process.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-13609](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-13609) is an information disclosure vulnerability in the 1 Click WordPress Migration Plugin, affecting all versions up to 2.1. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as usernames and password hashes, during the backup process. Exploiting this vulnerability could enable attackers to gather credentials for further attacks against WordPress sites.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 30th of March 2026.

CrowdSec network data shows that most actors exploiting CVE-2024-13609 rely on broad, untargeted scans with minimal filtering. The activity is largely automated and opportunistic in nature.
Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2024-13609 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2024-13609 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Attackers exploit this vulnerability by sending unauthenticated requests to URLs like `/wp-content/tmp/db/wp_users.sql` to directly download sensitive WordPress database tables, exposing usernames and password hashes during active backup windows.

## Timeline

- 2025-02-18: CVE Published. CVE-2024-13609 is published to NVD.
- 2026-03-30: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-13609 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-03-31: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-13609 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-13609.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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