CVE-2026-101889: Codexonics Prime Mover

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Prime Mover plugin for WordPress before 2.2.1 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows authenticated administrators to delete arbitrary directories by importing a crafted WPRIME/TAR package with manipulated tar_root_folder values in wprime-config.json. Attackers can exploit insufficient path validation in computeExtractVariables() and validateImportedSiteVsPackage() to cause primeMoverDoDelete() to remove directories outside the intended extraction path, potentially deleting critical WordPress directories such as wp-admin and rendering the site inoperable.

Affected products

• Codexonics Prime Mover: before 2.2.1 (fixed in 2.2.1)

Published 2026-10-01. Last modified 2026-10-02.