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.
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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.
Title Backup Migration < 2.1.7 - Admin+ Privilege Escalation via Post-Restore Auto-Login
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-15T06:00:14.986Z

Reserved: 2026-07-29T08:51:12.758Z

Link: CVE-2026-18216

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-15T06:17:08.487

Modified: 2026-08-15T06:17:08.487

Link: CVE-2026-18216

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