WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WPvivid Backup & Migration < 0.9.137 - Admin+ Path Traversal via Staging Site Path

Description

The plugin does not sanitize the staging destination folder supplied to its staging-start handler, applying only a generic text filter while the sibling writability-check handler applies the correct filename sanitizer, so an authenticated administrator can supply a path containing traversal sequences and make the plugin write the copied site files outside the WordPress installation directory.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 0.9.137

References

Classification

Type
TRAVERSAL
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Submitter
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-11-02 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-11-02 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-11-02 (about 1 day ago)

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