WordPress Backup Bolt plugin <= 1.5.0 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

published 2025-08-27 last yr. modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2025-25879

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits: 0; none known

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Backup Bolt Backup Bolt backup-bolt allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Backup Bolt: from n/a through <= 1.5.0.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: last yr. (2025-08-27)

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected products

Backup Bolt Backup Bolt

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/Wordpress/Plugin/backup-bolt/vulnerability/wordpress-backup-bolt-plugin-1-4-1-cross-site-request-for
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-49040
NVD CVE-2025-49040

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