Name: CVE-2020-36842: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2024-10-16T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2020-36842, CVSS 8.8, EPSS 0.01159

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.8
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Wpvivid Backuprestore Plugin	—	Update wpvivid-backuprestore plugin to version 0.9.36, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	Mar 13, 2020

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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