CVE-2026-86826: CWE-200 Information Exposure in BackWPup
Description
The BackWPup WordPress plugin before 5.7.7 does not properly restrict web access to the working directory it uses during backup restores, allowing unauthenticated attackers, on webservers that do not honour .htaccess rules such as NGINX, to download the full backup archive (database dump and site files, including credentials and secret keys) left behind by an interrupted restore.
Affected software
BackWPup
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- WPScan
- Date Reserved
- 2026-09-08T14:24:10.830Z
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ac735dc2cdf04f656f03ec9
Added to database: 10/08/2026, 06:19:08 UTC
Last updated: 10/08/2026, 06:19:08 UTC
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