CVE-2022-2271: Wpseeds Wp Database Backup

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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)

Affected products

• Wpseeds Wp Database Backup: before 5.9 (fixed in 5.9)

Published 2022-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.