Backup Migration <= 2.1.5.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) OS Command Injection via 'file' Parameter
Published Aug 5, 2026
7.2
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.95%
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`.
Affected products
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- Version 0StatusaffectedConstraints<=2.1.1
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| Inisev | Backup Migration | unaffected |
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Remediation
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References (9)
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-53182 Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/ajax.php#L3019
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/ajax.php#L3025
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/ajax.php#L3422
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/ajax.php#L3444
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/2.1.5.1/includes/initializer.php#L136
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/trunk/includes/ajax.php#L3025
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?new=3540041%40backup-backup%2Ftags%2F2.1.5.2&old=3512153%40backup-backup%2Ftags%2F2.1.5.1
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/af6a7052-6dab-42f0-a2af-0cf459d309d7?source=cve
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