CVE-2025-12654

The Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid Backup & Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary directory creation in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.120. This is due to the check_filesystem_permissions() function not properly restricting the directories that can be created, or in what location. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to create arbitrary directories.

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-12654 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-12654.

URL	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpvivid-backuprestore/tags/0.9.120/includes/staging/class-wpvivid-staging.php#L1535
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpvivid-backuprestore/tags/0.9.120/includes/staging/class-wpvivid-staging.php#L1568
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpvivid-backuprestore/tags/0.9.120/includes/staging/class-wpvivid-staging.php#L1571
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3397673%40wpvivid-backuprestore&new=3397673%40wpvivid-backuprestore&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpvivid-backuprestore/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/662aa8dd-69b7-49e3-811c-04329544e106?source=cve