Vulnerability · Published Oct 25, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-10579BackWPup <= 5.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin from wp_media. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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).
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| wp_media | BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin | * – through 5.5.0 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1e9a1484-2000-47fa-9890-fa02eddabcd9?source=cve
- https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-10579
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3381187%40backwpup%2Ftrunk&old=3362645%40backwpup%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file23