CVE-2026-127050

Description

Backup Migration before 2.1.8 for WordPress contains a path traversal vulnerability in its PclZip restore fallback that allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary file write when an administrator restores a malicious backup archive on a server lacking the PHP zip extension. Attackers can craft a zip archive with entry names containing ".." sequences, which PclZip's extract() processes without the PCLZIP_OPT_EXTRACT_DIR_RESTRICTION option, writing a PHP file outside the intended extraction directory into the web-servable tree to achieve remote code execution.

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

• 7.1CVSS 4.0, Highfrom the CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
• 6.4CVSS 3.1, Mediumfrom the CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Historical context and remediation

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Affected products

Timeline

1. 12 Nov 2026 Published

Weakness

• CWE-22

References

• Vendor Patchpatchrelease-notes
• VulnCheck Advisory: Backup Migration before 2.1.8 Path Traversal via PclZip Restore Fallbackthird-party-advisory