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CVE-2025-10304: Everest Backup – WordPress Cloud Backup, Migration, Restore & Cloning Plugin <= 2.3.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Backup Failure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-03 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Everest Backup – WordPress Cloud Backup, Migration, Restore & Cloning Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the process_status_unlink() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete the back-up progress files and cause a back-up to fail while it is in progress.

Affected products

• everestthemes Everest Backup: through 2.3.8

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3400800%40everest-backup&new=3400800%40everest-backup&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f7d7c619-7dc0-47a5-a203-6df4dfa0158b?source=cve

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