FKIE_CVE-2020-36842

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-16 08:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:16
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to a missing capability check on the wpvivid_upload_import_files and wpvivid_upload_files AJAX actions that allows low-level authenticated attackers to upload zip files that can be subsequently extracted. This affects versions up to, and including 0.9.35.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2261665%40wpvivid-backuprestore%2Ftrunk&old=2252870%40wpvivid-backuprestore%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.webarxsecurity.com/vulnerability-in-wpvivid-backup-plugin-can-lead-to-database-leak/?fbclid=IwAR3Ve74ZIvmx-aC0OssIWYwcWEjGq6yU16DcyVGHD1XUT3uYaZ3QyVu_Eos&utm_content=buffer4435b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=bufferBroken Link
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/de1da248-2e03-40fa-8997-7176dc06abc9?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpvivid migration\,_backup\,_staging *
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