WPvivid Plugin up to 0.9.136 on WordPress Staging path traversal

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A vulnerability has been found in WPvivid Plugin up to 0.9.136 and classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Staging. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-115242. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in WPvivid Plugin up to 0.9.136 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Staging. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging WordPress plugin before 0.9.137 does not sanitize the staging destination folder supplied to its staging-start handler, applying only a generic text filter while the sibling writability-check handler applies the correct filename sanitizer, so an authenticated administrator can supply a path containing traversal sequences and make the WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging WordPress plugin before 0.9.137 write the copied site files outside the WordPress installation directory.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-115242 since 10/22/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.9.137 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• WPvivid Plugin

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• 0.9.136

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