🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-14490

HIGH 7.5

Demi <= 0.0.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Directory Deletion via demi_restore_step AJAX action

CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Demi – One Click Demo Import, WP Backup & Site Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Directory Deletion in all versions up to, and including, 0.0.7. The vulnerability exists because the plugin stores its HMAC signing key and per-step restore token as dotfiles inside a publicly accessible subdirectory of the WordPress uploads folder — without any `.htaccess` or index file protection — and the `demi_restore_step` AJAX handler, registered for unauthenticated callers, explicitly accepts possession of the on-disk signing key as a standalone alternative to WordPress capability and nonce checks; an unauthenticated attacker who retrieves the exposed key can forge a valid signed state envelope to invoke `CleanDir::execute()` with a caller-supplied absolute path that is subject to no allow-list or path-canonicalization check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to recursively delete arbitrary directories on the server.

CWE CWE-22
Vendor deveasel
Product demi – one click demo import, backup & site migration
Published Jul 28, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

deveasel / Demi – One Click Demo Import, Backup & Site Migration
0 ≤ 0.0.7

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/63922c28-0cb5-4abe-85ee-20b2cc6f015d?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demi-backup-migration/trunk/classes/Backup/Tasks/CleanDir.php#L61 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demi-backup-migration/trunk/classes/Import/Manager.php#L767 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demi-backup-migration/trunk/classes/Import/Manager.php#L50 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demi-backup-migration/trunk/classes/Import/Manager.php#L287 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demi-backup-migration/tags/0.0.6/classes/Backup/Tasks/CleanDir.php#L61 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demi-backup-migration/tags/0.0.6/classes/Import/Manager.php#L767 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demi-backup-migration/tags/0.0.6/classes/Import/Manager.php#L50 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/demi-backup-migration/tags/0.0.6/classes/Import/Manager.php#L287 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3616690%40demi-backup-migration&new=3616690%40demi-backup-migration

Credits

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