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

Fixed in 5.5.1

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
No

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)

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