CVE-2022-2863: WPvivid Backup < 0.9.76 - Admin+ Arbitrary File Read

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 25.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-09-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Migration, Backup, Staging WordPress plugin before 0.9.76 does not sanitise and validate a parameter before using it to read the content of a file, allowing high privilege users to read any file from the web server via a Traversal attack

Affected products

wpvividplugins WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging: before 0.9.76 — fixed in 0.9.76

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpvividplugins WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging 0.9.76. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168616/WordPress-WPvivid-Backup-Path-Traversal.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/0
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cb6a3304-2166-47a0-a011-4dcacaa133e5
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168616/WordPress-WPvivid-Backup-Path-Traversal.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/0
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cb6a3304-2166-47a0-a011-4dcacaa133e5

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