Title: Plugin Creates Site Vulnerability
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Plugin Creates Site Vulnerability

 *  [jkuzma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkuzma/)
 * (@jkuzma)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-creates-site-vulnerability/)
 * Had multiple websites hacked. We traced it back to 777 permissions on the folder
   created by this plugin, which allowed the hackers to upload files to our site
   and overwrite others.
 * Please update your plugin to use 755 permissions instead.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/dbc-backup-2/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dbc-backup-2/)

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 * [DBC Backup 2](https://wordpress.org/plugins/dbc-backup-2/)
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 * Last reply from: [jkuzma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkuzma/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-creates-site-vulnerability/)
 * Status: not resolved