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File Manager <= 3.0 — Cross-Site Request Forgery

CVE-2018-16966Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.0Update to 3.1 or newer

All remediation steps

1M+ active installs

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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

File Manager wp-file-manager

  1. Affected≤ 3.0
  2. Patched in3.1
  3. Latest8.0.7

Update to 3.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.0. Version 3.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under File Manager.
  • 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 3.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch File Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Mohammed Ansari.

There is a CSRF vulnerability in the File Manager plugin 3.0 for WordPress via the page=wp_file_manager_root public_path parameter.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in File Manager

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.38.0.4 - Unauthenticated Information Exposure
7.2.2 – 8.0.4Update to 8.0.5
CVE-2026-19708
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤8.0.4Update to 8.0.5
CVE-2026-85081
High7.2Authenticated Remote Code Execution
<8.0.4Update to 8.0.4
CVE-2026-6382
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤7.2.7Update to 7.2.8
CVE-2024-37254
Medium6.8Authenticated (Administrator+) Directory Traversal
≤7.2.5Update to 7.2.6
CVE-2024-2654

Same weakness (CSRF)

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Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
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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