WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
BackWPup < 5.5.1 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure
Description
The plugin is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'backwpup_working' AJAX action. 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).
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
NO AUTHORISATION
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2025-10-24 (about 6 months ago)
Added
2025-10-27 (about 6 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-10-27 (about 6 months ago)