CVE-2025-11759 Cross-site request forgery in Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner
Attackers can trick admins into modifying FTP backup settings, allowing exfiltration of sensitive site data via CSRF in XCloner plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11759?
CVE-2025-11759 is a medium-severity vulnerability in watchful Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner, published on 5 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Backup, Restore and Migrate your sites with XCloner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the Xcloner_Remote_Storage:save() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add or modify an FTP backup configuration via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to set an attacker-controlled FTP site for backup storage and exfiltrate potentially sensitive site data.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11759?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11759?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11759 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-11759 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11759 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vvm8-x223-29qp.