Title: Serious security issue
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Serious security issue

 *  [spikespiegel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spikespiegel/)
 * (@spikespiegel)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-security-issue-1/)
 * I’ve been using this plugin for a long time, but right now I realized something
   that might be terrible: The backup file is directly accessible, so a possible
   attacker might open your backupfiles if he find a way to scan your folders. Please
   fix this, or give the site owner an option to change the backup directory to 
   the directory outside public_html.
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 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-security-issue-1/)
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