CVE-2025-5396 – Bears Backup <= 2.0.0 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2025-5396

16 Jul 2025 — 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 vers... • https://themeforest.net/item/alone-charity-multipurpose-nonprofit-wordpress-theme/15019939 • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') •