Medium severity · published Aug 15, 2026
CVE-2026-18216
Backup Migration < 2.1.7 - Admin+ Privilege Escalation via Post-Restore Auto-Login
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Backup Migration WordPress plugin before 2.1.7 does not properly restrict a post-restore automatic login mechanism, allowing a user who administers one site of a multisite network to obtain a long-lived authenticated session as an administrator of another site in the same network, without credentials and bypassing two-factor authentication.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 43% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BM
Backup Migration ·
before 2.1.7 · source: vendor
Affected product
BM
Backup Migration
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