The Post Export Import with Media plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.17.1 via the 'file_path' parameter parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. This requires the attacker to upload a crafted ZIP archive containing a media_metadata.json file with path traversal sequences in the file_path field while specifying an allowed file extension for the destination filename to bypass the extension guard introduced in version 1.13.2.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 4.9NVD modified 2026-10-13 13:30
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-export-import-with-media/trunk/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.1/includes/class-media-handler.php#L500
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.1/includes/class-media-handler.php#L573
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.1/includes/class-media-handler.php#L575
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.1/includes/class-media-handler.php#L982
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3726363/post-export-import-with-media/trunk/includes/class-media-handler.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/71a6ba3d-0473-46c9-8040-b415807f4073?source=cve