The Post Export Import with Media plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.17.2 via the 'theme_slug' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to perform actions on files outside of the originally intended directory. Exploitation requires the peiwm_enable_admin_download_buttons feature to be enabled in the plugin settings.
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 2026-10-19 15:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 11
- 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-admin-download-buttons.php#L251
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.1/includes/class-admin-download-buttons.php#L258
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.1/includes/class-admin-download-buttons.php#L357
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.1/includes/class-admin-download-buttons.php#L360
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.2/includes/class-admin-download-buttons.php#L251
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.2/includes/class-admin-download-buttons.php#L258
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.2/includes/class-admin-download-buttons.php#L357
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-export-import-with-media/tags/1.17.2/includes/class-admin-download-buttons.php#L360
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3749775/post-export-import-with-media/trunk/includes/class-admin-download-buttons.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/061b1f95-26da-4d1a-9e0a-6f83adf56d2e?source=cve