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Everest Backup – WordPress Cloud Backup, Migration, Restore & Cloning Plugin, CVE-2025-11380

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-11380

Published on
Oct 11, 2025
Research Description
The Everest Backup – WordPress Cloud Backup, Migration, Restore & Cloning Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'everest_process_status' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve back-up file locations that can be subsequently accessed and downloaded. This does require a back-up to be running in order for an attacker to retrieve the back-up location.
Affected versions
max 2.3.6.
Status
vulnerable