High severity · published Oct 16, 2026
CVE-2026-93953
Backuply <= 1.5.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Second-Order SQL Injection via Restore to Privilege Escalation
8.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 27% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BB
Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone · softaculous
through 1.5.8 · source: vendor
Affected product
BB
Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone
softaculous
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93953
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93953
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/tags/1.5.7/backup_ins.php#L140
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/tags/1.5.7/backup_ins.php#L592
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/tags/1.5.7/restore_ins.php#L2247
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backuply/tags/1.5.7/restore_ins.php#L2255
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3723257/backuply
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/202a2d02-a069-43d1-9ebe-59828e828c03?source=cve
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