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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2025-5396 EUVD-2025-21756GHSA-mr9j-vgmq-cxhq

Bears Backup <= 2.0.0 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Published Jul 17, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Bearsthemes Bears Backup ≤ 2.0.0 —

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