CVE-2026-18386

Medium

Description

The WP BackItUp Community Edition plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 via the 'backup_file' parameter parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. The basename() normalization present in the handler only executes when the traversed target path does not exist, providing no protection against reads of existing files.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.9
Exploit probability—
ProductWP BackItUp Community Edition
PublishedSep 10, 2026
First seenSep 10, 2026

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
cssimmon WP BackItUp Community Editionv ≤ 2.1.0—

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