CVE-2022-2271

4.8 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (4.8) in wpseeds wp database backup. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Database Backup WordPress plugin before 5.9 does not escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.8 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2022-09-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

wpseeds:wp_database_backup

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b064940f-9614-4b7b-b2c4-e79528746833
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b064940f-9614-4b7b-b2c4-e79528746833

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