What is CVE-2025-15041?

CVE-2025-15041 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wp_media Backwpup – Wordpress Backup & Restore Plugin, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2026-02-19.

How severe is CVE-2025-15041?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Wp_media Backwpup – Wordpress Backup & Restore Plugin

CVE-2025-15041

The BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the save_site_option() function in all vers…

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.001 (16.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Wp_media Backwpup – Wordpress Backup & Restore Plugin

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-15041?: CVE-2025-15041 is a high-severity vulnerability in Wp_media Backwpup – Wordpress Backup & Restore Plugin, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2026-02-19.
How severe is CVE-2025-15041?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.