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CVE-2025-10579:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The BackWPup WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin is affected by a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-10579, discovered and disclosed on October 24, 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 5.5.0. This security issue involves unauthorized access to data due to a missing capability check on the 'backwpup_working' AJAX action (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.3 (Medium). The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, indicating network accessibility with high attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction, and potentially resulting in high confidentiality impact (NVD, Rapid7).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to retrieve access to a backup's filename while a backup is running. While this information alone has limited value, it could potentially be used to aid in brute force attacks to retrieve backup contents in specific environments, particularly in NGINX setups (NVD).
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Source: This report was generated using AI
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