CVE-2026-7693
Backup Migration <= 2.1.5.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) OS Command Injection via 'file' Parameter
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 3.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Backup Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to OS Command Injection in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.5.1 due to insufficient sanitization of the `file` POST parameter on the `restoreBackup()` AJAX handler. The handler applies `esc_attr()` — an HTML-context sanitizer that does not strip shell metacharacters — and concatenates the result, unquoted, into a `php-cli -f … bmi_restore <file> <remote>` command passed to `exec()`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access (or any user granted the plugin's `do_backups` capability) and above, to execute arbitrary OS commands as the web-server user, bypassing WordPress hardening constants such as `DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT` and `DISALLOW_FILE_MODS` that would otherwise prevent code execution from the admin UI. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2023-7002, which patched the same pattern only in the `$_POST['url']` path of `handleQuickMigration()`; the equivalent mitigations (`rawurlencode()` + explicit shell-metachar replacement + double-quoting in `exec()`) were never applied to `$backupName`.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 2.1.1
References
References8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/af6a7052-6dab-42f0-a2af-0cf459d309d7?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/trunk/includes/ajax.php#L3025 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/ajax.php#L3025 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/ajax.php#L3019 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/ajax.php#L3422 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/ajax.php#L3444 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/initializer.php#L136 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?new=3540041%40backup-backup%2Ftags%2F2.1.5.2&old=3512153%40backup-backup%2Ftags%2F2.1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-53182 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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