CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-14503
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-07-17
- Last modified
- 2026-07-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The pCloud WP Backup plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.3 via the wp2pcl_ajax_process_request_inner. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to extract force generation of a full-site backup archive written to a publicly accessible directory, exposing wp-config.php database credentials, WordPress secret salts, and the complete PHP source tree. The resulting archive is deposited in the plugin's unprotected tmp/ directory at a predictable URL, making the extracted data accessible to unauthenticated visitors once the backup is triggered.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pcloud-wp-backup/tags/2.0.2/Pcloud/Classes/class-wp2pcloudfilebackup.php#L111 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pcloud-wp-backup/tags/2.0.2/pcloud-wp-backup.php#L1635 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pcloud-wp-backup/tags/2.0.2/pcloud-wp-backup.php#L210 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pcloud-wp-backup/tags/2.0.2/pcloud-wp-backup.php#L217 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pcloud-wp-backup/tags/2.0.2/pcloud-wp-backup.php#L572 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3597399%40pcloud-wp-backup&new=3597399%40pcloud-wp-backup plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0b301c6e-a3c5-4435-9bc9-fab18085fe2d?source=cve www.wordfence.com