What is CVE-2025-10579?

CVE-2025-10579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp_media Backwpup – Wordpress Backup & Restore Plugin, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-10-25.

How severe is CVE-2025-10579?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Wp_media Backwpup – Wordpress Backup & Restore Plugin

CVE-2025-10579

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 ma…

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.000 (8.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Wp_media Backwpup – Wordpress Backup & Restore Plugin

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-10579?: CVE-2025-10579 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp_media Backwpup – Wordpress Backup & Restore Plugin, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-10-25.
How severe is CVE-2025-10579?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.