CVE-2026-93953

Backuply <= 1.5.8 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Second-Order SQL Injection via Restore to Privilege Escalation

HIGH
8
CVSS Score
Published: October 16, 2026 at 03:38 AM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 03:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBackuply

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Severity
HIGH8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Backuply· Softaculouswordpress-plugin
90%
All versions

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

8HIGHWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-89

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