Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 5, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-2271

Description

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)

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Affected products

Wpseeds/Wp Database Backup
cpe:2.3:a:wpseeds:wp_database_backup:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <5.9
WordPress/Wp Database Backupllm-fuzzy2 versions
<5.9+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <5.9
- (no CPE)range: 5.9
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-database-backup

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/b064940f-9614-4b7b-b2c4-e79528746833nvdBroken LinkThird Party Advisory

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