# CVE-2024-9765: EKC Tournament Manager - Arbitrary File Download

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-9765 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-2024-9765

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 6.5
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** N/A EKC Tournament Manager
- **Tags:** wordpress, cms

## Description

The EKC Tournament Manager WordPress plugin before 2.2.2 allows a logged in admin to download system files outside of the WordPress directory

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-9765](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9765) is a vulnerability in the EKC Tournament Manager WordPress plugin that allows logged-in administrators to download arbitrary system files outside of the WordPress directory. This flaw could be exploited to access sensitive server files, potentially exposing confidential information and increasing the risk of further attacks.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 25th of March 2026.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2024-9765 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit the plugin by sending requests to `/wp-admin/admin.php?page=ekc-backup` with a `backup` parameter containing path traversal sequences (e.g., `../../`) to download sensitive files such as `/etc/passwd`.

## Timeline

- 2025-05-15: CVE Published. CVE-2024-9765 is published to NVD.
- 2026-03-25: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-9765 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c86157b0-43f3-4e82-9697-7dd9401b48d6/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-9765.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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