CVE 9.8 CRITICAL

Bears Backup <= 2.0.0 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution_CVE-2025-5396

9.8 / 10
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

The Bears Backup plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to the bbackup_ajax_handle() function not having a capability check, nor validating user supplied input passed directly to call_user_func(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server which can be leverage to inject backdoors or create new administrative user accounts to name a few things. On WordPress sites running the Alone theme versions 7.8.4 and older, this can be chained with CVE-2025-5394 to install the Bears Backup plugin and achieve the same impact.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-5396
Source Wordfence
Published Jul 17, 2025 at 01:44
Modified Jul 17, 2025 at 14:38

Affected Product

Vendor Bearsthemes
Product Bears Backup
Version *
Affected Versions Bearsthemes Bears Backup *

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