CVE-2022-2554: Shortpixel Enable Media Replace

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Shortpixel Enable Media Replace: before 4.0.0 (fixed in 4.0.0)

Published 2022-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.