CVE-2023-7002 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Backup Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to OS Command Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.9 via the 'url' parameter. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to execute arbitrary commands on the host operating system.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.23154.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Backupbliss Subscribe	Backup Migration Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:backupbliss:backup_migration:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/1.3.9/includes/ajax.php#L1503
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/1.3.9/includes/ajax.php#L1518
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/backup-backup/tags/1.3.9/includes/ajax.php#L88
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3012745/backup-backup
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/php-function-exec-enabled-how-big-issue-4175508082/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc49db10-988d-42bd-a9cf-9a86f4c79568?source=cve

History

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-12-23T01:59:51.281Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:16:23.852Z

Reserved: 2023-12-20T14:55:56.413Z

Link: CVE-2023-7002

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:50:07.660Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-23T02:15:45.490

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:45:00.317

Link: CVE-2023-7002

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-78

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