CVE-2026-18216

Published: Aug 15, 2026Modified: Aug 26, 2026Deferred

6.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploitability: 1.2 / Impact: 5.2

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-287

Improper Authentication

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

References (1)

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f12530c5-4069-42c2-9f1c-b00fc62aa387/

Source: contact@wpscan.com

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