CVE-2026-3577
The Keep Backup Daily plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the backup title alias (`val` parameter) in the `update_kbd_bkup_alias` AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. While `sanitize_text_field()` strips HTML tags on save, it does not encode double quotes. The backup titles are output in HTML attribute contexts without `esc_attr()`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts via attribute injection that will execute whenever another administrator views the backup list page.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 4.4 Medium
- Status
- Deferred - security@wordfence.com
- Published
- 2026-03-21
- Last modified
- 2026-04-08
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/keep-backup-daily/tags/2.1.1/inc/functions.php#L626
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/keep-backup-daily/tags/2.1.1/inc/kbd_cron.php#L505
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/keep-backup-daily/trunk/inc/functions.php#L626
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/keep-backup-daily/trunk/inc/kbd_cron.php#L505
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3481587%40keep-backup-daily&new=348158…
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/18a4fa4b-5c99-4347-8b34-e49f7e0972be?source=cve