CVE-2022-4931: Xibodevelopment Backupwordpress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The BackupWordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to information disclosure in versions up to, and including 3.12. This is due to missing authorization on the heartbeat_received() function that triggers on WordPress heartbeat. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above to retrieve back-up paths that can subsequently be used to download the back-up.

Affected products

• Xibodevelopment Backupwordpress: up to and including 3.12

Published 2023-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.