CVE-2022-2863
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
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 25.1%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 25.10% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- wpvivid/migration\, backup\, staging
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
EPSS 25.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168616/WordPress-WPvivid-Backup-Path-Traversal.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/0Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cb6a3304-2166-47a0-a011-4dcacaa133e5Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168616/WordPress-WPvivid-Backup-Path-Traversal.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/0Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cb6a3304-2166-47a0-a011-4dcacaa133e5Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.