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

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-10304
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 2, 2025
Last Updated December 3, 2025
Researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug everest-backup (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.3.8
Patched Version
  • 2.3.9
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