Backup Bolt <= 1.4.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Download

External Control of File Name or Path
CVE CVE-2025-10306
CVSS Low (3.8)
Publicly Published October 2, 2025
Last Updated October 10, 2025
Researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug backup-bolt (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.1
Patched Version
  • 1.5.0
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