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WP Import Export Lite vulnerabilities
WP Import Export Lite has 15 known vulnerabilities in this database. The most recent published record is dated 19 Sep 2026.
- Known vulnerabilities
- 15
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- Latest version
- 3.9.35
- Last updated
- 12 Sep 2026
- Most recent
- 19 Sep 2026
Find it in your WordPress dashboard under Plugins. Severity is based on the CVSS score published with the CVE where one is available.
| Vulnerability | Severity | Affected | Fix | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privilege escalation CVE-2026-76554 | High 7.2 | Before 3.9.35 | Fixed in 3.9.35 | 19 Sep 2026 |
| Remote code execution CVE-2026-76552 | High 8.8 | Before 3.9.33 | Fixed in 3.9.33 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Arbitrary file deletion CVE-2026-76553 | Medium 6.5 | Before 3.9.33 | Fixed in 3.9.33 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Path traversal CVE-2026-76555 | Medium 6.8 | Before 3.9.33 | Fixed in 3.9.33 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| SQL injection CVE-2026-76556 | Medium 6.8 | Before 3.9.33 | Fixed in 3.9.33 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| SQL injection CVE-2026-76557 | Medium 6.8 | Before 3.9.33 | Fixed in 3.9.33 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2026-76558 | Medium 6.8 | Before 3.9.33 | Fixed in 3.9.33 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Server-side request forgery (SSRF) CVE-2026-76559 | Medium 4.1 | Before 3.9.33 | Fixed in 3.9.33 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Remote code execution CVE-2026-76550 | High 7.2 | Before 3.9.34 | Fixed in 3.9.34 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Remote code execution CVE-2026-76551 | High 7.2 | Before 3.9.33 | Fixed in 3.9.33 | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Server-side request forgery (SSRF) CVE-2026-11397 | Medium 5.5 | Up to 3.9.30 | Fixed in a later version (latest 3.9.35) | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Remote code execution CVE-2025-5061 | High 7.5 | Before 3.9.30 | Fixed in 3.9.30 | 5 Aug 2025 |
| Remote code execution CVE-2025-6207 | High 7.5 | Before 3.9.29 | Fixed in 3.9.29 | 5 Aug 2025 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2025-2839 | Medium 6.4 | Before 3.9.28 | Fixed in 3.9.28 | 22 Apr 2025 |
| Broken access control CVE-2022-0236 | High 7.5 | Up to 3.9.15 | Fixed in a later version (latest 3.9.35) | 18 Jan 2022 |
Read the published descriptions
- CVE-2026-76554, 19 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.35 does not verify that the user running an import is permitted to create or modify user accounts and assign roles, allowing users granted a delegated WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.35 permission, who cannot otherwise manage users, to create administrator accounts and to overwrite the credentials and role of existing accounts, including administrators. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76552, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 does not validate the type, extension or content of files it retrieves from a user-supplied URL during import, allowing users granted its import permission to store arbitrary files, including executable ones, on the server and achieve remote code execution. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76553, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 does not validate a path taken from stored, user-supplied data before recursively deleting the directory it resolves to, allowing users to whom an administrator has delegated a WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 capability to delete arbitrary directories, and every file within them, including outside the web root. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76555, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 does not validate a user-supplied file path before reading it and copying it into a publicly accessible directory, allowing any user whose role an administrator has granted the WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33's import permission to disclose sensitive files from the server, including files located outside the web root. The same code path also relaxes the file-system permissions of any path it is given, whether or not the copy succeeds. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76556, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 does not properly sanitise and escape some export filter values before using them in SQL statements, allowing users holding its export permission, which administrators have by default and may also grant to lower roles, to perform SQL injection attacks. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76557, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 does not properly sanitise and escape some import configuration values before using them in SQL statements, allowing users whose role an administrator has granted the WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33's import permission to perform SQL injection attacks. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76558, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 does not escape custom field names retrieved from the database before inserting them into the DOM of one of its administration screens, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored XSS attacks which will trigger in the browser of a high privileged user, such as an administrator, viewing that screen. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76559, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 does not properly validate URLs before requesting them during the import process, allowing users with the import capability, which administrators hold by default, to make the site issue requests to internal hosts and services and read their responses. This is an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-11397. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76550, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.34 does not validate a user-supplied output path when writing export files, allowing users granted its export permission to write files with arbitrary names to arbitrary locations on the server, leading to remote code execution. CVE record
- CVE-2026-76551, 16 Sep 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.33 does not restrict which PHP function may be applied to exported field values, allowing users granted its export permission to have arbitrary functions invoked on values they control, leading to remote code execution. CVE record
- CVE-2026-11397, 3 Jul 2026
- The WP Import Export Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to and including 3.9.30 via the wpie_import_upload_file_from_url AJAX action. The plugin's URL downloader first calls wp_safe_remote_get() (which correctly blocks private/reserved IP ranges), but when that call returns a WP_Error - the exact outcome for any blocked internal host - the Download::download_file() method falls back to GuzzleHttp\Client::request() with the original attacker-supplied URL and no SSRF protection (and with TLS verification disabled). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services such as the cloud metadata endpoint at 169. CVE record
- CVE-2025-5061, 5 Aug 2025
- The WP Import Export Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the 'wpie_parse_upload_data' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.29. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, and permissions granted by an Administrator, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 3.9.29. CVE record
- CVE-2025-6207, 5 Aug 2025
- The WP Import Export Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the 'wpie_tempalte_import' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.28. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, and permissions granted by an Administrator, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible. CVE record
- CVE-2025-2839, 22 Apr 2025
- The WP Import Export Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wpiePreviewData’ function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.27 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. CVE record
- CVE-2022-0236, 18 Jan 2022
- The WP Import Export WordPress plugin (both free and premium versions) is vulnerable to unauthenticated sensitive data disclosure due to a missing capability check on the download function wpie_process_file_download found in the ~/includes/classes/class-wpie-general.php file. This made it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download any imported or exported information from a vulnerable site which can contain sensitive information like user data. This affects versions up to, and including, 3.9.15. CVE record
What to do if you run WP Import Export Lite
If you run WP Import Export Lite, open WordPress and check the installed version in Plugins. Compare it with the affected versions in the vulnerability record. If a fixed version is available, take a current backup and update to that version or the latest supported release.
If no fixed version exists, consider disabling and removing the plugin or replacing it with a maintained alternative. After dealing with the affected software, check administrator users, unexpected file changes, redirects, unfamiliar pages and security logs for signs that the site may already have been altered.
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