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Brandfolder – Digital Asset Management Simplified. < 3.0.1 — Local/Remote File Inclusion

240cc19a-9bae-4e69-a16f-46901daaa945Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <3.0.1Update to 3.0.1 or newer

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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-98 Local File Inclusion
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Brandfolder – Digital Asset Management Simplified. brandfolder

  1. Affected< 3.0.1
  2. Patched in3.0.1

Update to 3.0.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 3.0.1. Version 3.0.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Brandfolder – Digital Asset Management Simplified..
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.0.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Brandfolder – Digital Asset Management Simplified. to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to AMAR^SHG.

The Brandfolder – Digital Asset Management Simplified. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local and Remote File Inclusion in versions up to, and including, 3.0 via the 'wp_abspath' parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to include remote files on the server, resulting in code execution.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Brandfolder – Digital Asset Management Simplified.

All 3
More vulnerabilities in Brandfolder – Digital Asset Management Simplified.
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.1Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion
≤3.0No patch available
CVE-2016-20080
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via id Parameter
≤5.0.19Update to 5.0.20
CVE-2025-5843

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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