CVE-2026-7693 PUBLISHED

Backup Migration <= 2.1.5.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) OS Command Injection via 'file' Parameter

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 02.05.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 05.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.2

Product Status

Vendor inisev
Product Backup Migration
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.1.1 (incl.)

Credits

  • at1as finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') CWE