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).
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Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:30:00 +0000
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| Description | 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). | |
| Title | BackWPup <= 5.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-862 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2025-10-25T04:22:44.402Z
Updated: 2025-10-25T04:22:44.402Z
Reserved: 2025-09-16T19:37:30.649Z
Link: CVE-2025-10579
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Status : Received
Published: 2025-10-25T05:15:36.007
Modified: 2025-10-25T05:15:36.007
Link: CVE-2025-10579
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