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Over 3 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Migration Plugin Vulnerability

A high-severity vulnerability in the All-in-One WP Migration and Backup WordPress plugin exposes over 3 million websites to remote code execution (RCE) attacks, WordPress security firm Defiant warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-19949 (CVSS score of 8.8), the security defect is described as a second-order SQL injection issue in the archive restore functionality of the plugin. The flaw exists because user-supplied input is insufficiently escaped and existing SQL queries are not sufficiently prepared, Defiant explains. An attacker could supply malicious content via WordPress core’s trackback functionality to extract the secret key used during an archive restore operation, and then use the key to deploy a malicious plugin for RCE. All-in-One WP Migration and Backup packages sites into .wpress…

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Sep 3, 2026
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