SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-10579

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).

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor	Product	Versions
Backwpup	Backwpup	*

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language	Software Edition	Target Software	Target Hardware	Other Information
a	backwpup	backwpup	/	/	/	/	/	wordpress	/	/

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3381187%40backwpup%2Ftrunk&old=3362645%40backwpup%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file23

https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-10579

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1e9a1484-2000-47fa-9890-fa02eddabcd9?source=cve

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Attack Complexity: HIGH
Privileges Required: LOW
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Timeline

Published: Oct. 25, 2025, 5:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Oct. 25, 2025, 5:15 a.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

CVE-2025-10579