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CVE-2025-2257: Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid <= 1.16.10 - Authenticated (Admin+) Command Injection

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.86% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 58.6% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
No fixed version is recorded, but the references include a patch (commit or PR) link.

Low priority for now. See the fix and affected versions sections below.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.10 via the compression_level setting. This is due to the plugin using the compression_level setting in proc_open() without any validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to execute code on the server.

HighCVSS 7.2 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: Mar 26, 2025
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.8% · 58th percentile
CWE: CWE-78

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 28 / 40 · 7.2 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.8%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · Wordfence: 7.2; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
boldgrid	total upkeep	cpe:2.3:a:boldgrid:total_upkeep

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

boldgrid total upkeepbefore 1.17.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

boldgrid Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid
- up to and including 1.16.10affected · semver

Same product

boldgrid: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2020-36848Total Upkeep by BoldGrid <= 1.14.9 - Unauthenticated Backup Download
60This week
CVE-2026-66708WordPress Total Upkeep plugin <= 1.17.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
32Monitor
CVE-2024-24869WordPress Total Upkeep plugin <= 1.15.8 - Arbitrary File Download vulnerability
30Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-4932Mar 7, 2023 · Total Upkeep <= 1.14.13 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Disclosure
17Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-9461Nov 26, 2024 · Total Upkeep <= 1.16.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Remote Code Execution via Backup Settings
28Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-13907Feb 27, 2025 · Total Upkeep – WordPress Backup Plugin plus Restore & Migrate by BoldGrid <= 1.16.8 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery
26Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

BoldGrid/boldgrid-backupPR 622

Credits

All researchers

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Dzmitry Sviatlichnyfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2024-9461120 days apartTotal Upkeep <= 1.16.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Remote Code Execution via Backup Settings
28Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-78 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const host = req.body.host;
2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

Fixed

1const host = req.body.host;
2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);
3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

github.com/BoldGrid/boldgrid-backup/pull/622/files

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