The Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the the UploadHandler.php file and no direct file access prevention in all versions up to, and including, 1.22.21. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
CVE-2024-8856
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2024-11-16. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
Also known asEUVD-2024-49578 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 94%
- Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, other public proof-of-concept code)
A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 97EG Risk 97/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation94% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 94%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 94% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-02). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
November 16, 2024
Last Modified
July 9, 2025
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Oct 9, 2026CVE-2024-8856 - Unauthenticated RCE via Arbitrary File Upload
https://hacked.be/posts/CVE-2024-8856Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 60× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 94 of 118 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 6 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 24 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-03 07:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-03 07:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-11-02 10:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 10:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-11-01 12:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 12:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-31 14:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-30 17:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 17:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-30 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-29 19:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 19:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-28 21:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 21:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-28 00:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-27 02:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-26 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-26 00:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-25 16:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-10-25 03:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-24 05:39 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-24 05:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-23 08:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 08:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-22 10:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 10:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-21 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-21 12:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 12:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-20 14:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 14:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-19 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 16:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 16:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 15:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 05:55 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-17 18:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-16 20:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-15 17:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-14 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-14 11:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 11:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-13 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 10:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 17:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-12 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wph3-vq9m-q946 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 20:59 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-11 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 94% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits
(5 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 1 GitHub PoC), as are 1 Nuclei detection template, 1 GitHub checker repository. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.
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Open source ↗ - Nucleihttp/cves/2024/CVE-2024-8856.yamlPublished Dec 12, 2024
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