Backup Bolt, CVE-2025-10306

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-10306
Home page URL: Security reports for Backup Bolt
Application: Backup Bolt
Published on: Oct 03, 2025
Research Description: The Backup Bolt plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file downloads and backup location writes in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.1 via the process_backup_batch() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to download directories outside of the webroot and write backup zip files to arbitrary locations.
Affected versions: max 1.4.1.
Status: vulnerable