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CVE-2022-4931

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The BackupWordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to information disclosure in versions up to, and including 3.12. This is due to missing authorization on the heartbeat_received() function that triggers on WordPress heartbeat. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above to retrieve back-up paths that can subsequently be used to download the back-up.

Affected products

• willmot BackUpWordPress: through 3.12

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2683799%40backupwordpress&new=2683799%40backupwordpress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/747c86f4-118b-4a9c-899c-e9067d2c7a02
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2683799%40backupwordpress&new=2683799%40backupwordpress&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/747c86f4-118b-4a9c-899c-e9067d2c7a02

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