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CVE-2023-4274

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-10-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 0.9.89. This allows authenticated attackers with administrative privileges to delete the contents of arbitrary directories on the server, which can be a critical issue in a shared environments.

Affected products

• wpvividplugins WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging: before 0.9.90 — fixed in 0.9.90

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wpvividplugins WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging 0.9.90. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpvivid-backuprestore/tags/0.9.89/includes/class-wpvivid-setting.php#L200
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2956458%40wpvivid-backuprestore%2Ftrunk&old=2948265%40wpvivid-backuprestore%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d94f38f-4b52-4b0d-800c-a6fca40bda3c?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpvivid-backuprestore/tags/0.9.89/includes/class-wpvivid-setting.php#L200
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2956458%40wpvivid-backuprestore%2Ftrunk&old=2948265%40wpvivid-backuprestore%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5d94f38f-4b52-4b0d-800c-a6fca40bda3c?source=cve

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