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CVE-2022-27844:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2022-27844 is an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability affecting WPvivid Team Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid WordPress plugin versions 0.9.70 and earlier. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on April 7, 2022, and was fixed in version 0.9.71 (Patchstack, WPScan).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Directory Traversal issue with a CVSS score of 2.7 (Low). The plugin does not properly validate log files to be accessed, which could allow high privilege users such as administrators to download arbitrary files on the server. This vulnerability falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A5: Broken Access Control (Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with administrator privileges to see all files in a given directory or determine if certain files/directories exist in a given folder. This capability could be leveraged to exploit other weaknesses in the system (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to update to version 0.9.71 or later of the WPvivid plugin to remediate this vulnerability. No alternative workarounds have been provided (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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