HIGHCVSS v3.1 8.0Vulnerability

CVE-2026-93953

The Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the Biographical Info field (second-order, via restore) in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and the lack of sufficient preparation on an existing SQL query. Backuply exports the Biographical Info value verbatim inside an INSERT statement written to the backup's SQL dump (wp_usermeta). When an Administrator later restores such a backup, the crafted payload breaks out of that INSERT statement and appends attacker-controlled SQL that executes with full database privileges. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to write arbitrary data to the database — in particular to update the default_role option in wp_options to administrator (and enable open user registration) — so that a subsequently registered account is automatically granted the Administrator role, resulting in privilege escalation and full site takeover. Because the injection executes inside an INSERT during restore with no response returned to the attacker, the primitive is used to modify database records rather than to read existing data directly.

Properties

Severity
HIGH
Nvd fetched at
2026-10-20T21:14:08.448323+00:00
Epss score
0.0034
Cvss severity
HIGH
Cvss score
8
Retrieved at
2026-10-21T01:24:51+00:00
Last source
FIRST EPSS
Score
8
Cvss version
3.1
Cve id
CVE-2026-93953
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
First seen by Signal
2026-10-18T13:39:03+00:00
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published at
2026-10-16T04:18:43.143
Last modified
2026-10-16T15:17:36.293
Epss percentile
0.25969

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