CVE-2025-10579

BackWPup <= 5.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: October 25, 2025 at 04:22 AM UTC
Updated: October 8, 2026 at 11:10 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBackWPup

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

BackWPup· Wp Mediawordpress-plugin
90%
v ≤ 5.5.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5.3MEDIUMWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-862

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