Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.25 - Missing Authorization

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2026-42760
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published May 30, 2026
Last Updated June 11, 2026
Researcher dodoh4t

Description

The Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 1.22.25. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

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Vulnerability Details for Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-time-capsule (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.22.26, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.22.25
Patched Version
  • 1.22.26

Recent vulnerabilities in Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.26 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure via download_recent_decrypted_file_wptc Function CVE-2026-8996 6.5 Suredsi Ulpada (cyberdesu) July 8, 2026
2 Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.23 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2025-47477 6.1 Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc) June 4, 2025
3 Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.21 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload CVE-2024-8856 9.8 Rein Daelman (trein) November 15, 2024
4 Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.21 - Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2024-49684 7.2 Hakiduck October 21, 2024
5 Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.21 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection CVE-2024-48020 6.5 Hakiduck October 8, 2024
6 Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.20 - Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover CVE-2024-38770 9.8 Dave Jong July 13, 2024
7 Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-25035 6.1 Jeremie Amsellem December 21, 2021
8 Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.21.15 - Authentication Bypass CVE-2020-8771 9.8 WebARX Security January 14, 2020

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