CVE-2025-10579 (GCVE-0-2025-10579)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-25 04:22
Modified
2025-10-27 15:57
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
Summary
The BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'backwpup_working' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve access to a back-up's filename while a backup is running. This information has little value on it's own, but could be used to aid in a brute force attack to retrieve back-up contents in limited environments (i.e. NGINX).
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wp_media BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin Version: *   ≤ 5.5.0
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