Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid <= 0.9.35 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload

8.8
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2020-36842
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published March 13, 2020
Last Updated October 16, 2024
Researcher WebARX Security - WebARX Security

Description

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.

Wordfence blocked 40 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid Backup & Migration

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpvivid-backuprestore (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 0.9.36, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 0.9.35
Patched Version
  • 0.9.36

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