- 4.9MediumCVSS base score
- 26.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it.
Show the exploits1
Nuclei templates1 template
- WordPress WPvivid Backup <0.9.76 - Local File Inclusion (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-2863.yamlSeverity medium
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 31 days later
· 31 days later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 26.6% · top 2.0% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Affected products
Unknown · Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid
- affected 0.9.76 – < 0.9.76
References
References3
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cb6a3304-2166-47a0-a011-4dcacaa133e5 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 20221003 Wordpress plugin - WPvivid Backup - CVE-2022-2863. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168616/WordPress-WPvivid-Backup-Path-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-35097 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-2863)Record last updated .