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CVE-2022-2554: Enable Media Replace < 4.0.0 - Admin+ Path Traversal

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 19/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.97% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 61.9% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Enable Media Replace WordPress plugin before 4.0.0 does not ensure that renamed files are moved to the Upload folder, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to move them outside to the web root directory via a path traversal attack for example

MediumCVSS 4.9 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Path traversal

Published: Oct 10, 2022
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.9% · 61th percentile
CWE: CWE-22

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 19 / 40 · 4.9 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.9%

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Vendor	Product	CPE
shortpixel	enable media replace	cpe:2.3:a:shortpixel:enable_media_replace

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

shortpixel enable media replacebefore 4.0.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Unknown Enable Media Replace
- 4.0.0 and later · before 4.0.0affected

Same product

shortpixel: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2026-73186WordPress Enable Media Replace plugin <= 4.2.2 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability
35Monitor
CVE-2023-4643Enable Media Replace < 4.1.3 - Author+ PHP Object Injection
35Monitor
CVE-2023-0255Enable Media Replace < 4.0.2 - Author+ Arbitrary File Upload
35Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

Later →CVE-2023-6737Jan 11, 2024 · Enable Media Replace <= 4.1.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
24Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-31081Apr 1, 2025 · WordPress Enable Media Replace plugin <= 4.1.5 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
28Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-9496Oct 11, 2025 · Enable Media Replace <= 4.1.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via file_modified Shortcode
25Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Raad HaddadCloudyrion GmbH

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-22 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);
2res.sendFile(file);

Fixed

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);
2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {
3  return res.sendStatus(400);
4}
5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

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