WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
BackWPup < 5.6.3 - BackWPup Helper+ Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary Options Update
Description
The plugin is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the save_site_option() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with BackWPup Helper level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
NO AUTHORISATION
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
0N0ise
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-02-18 (about 2 months ago)
Added
2026-02-18 (about 2 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-02-18 (about 2 months ago)