Vulnerability in BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin — CVE-2026-86828

What to do now

Update BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin to 5.7.7 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything before 5.7.7

The BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to 5.7.7. This is due to insufficient validation of a user supplied path. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to access files and directories outside of the intended directory.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a374bef-5359-41a4-a136-c9f29802766d?source=api-prod

Part of this record comes from Wordfence Intelligence. Original: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a374bef-5359-41a4-a136-c9f29802766d
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