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Phoenix Media Rename <= 3.4.2 — Author Arbitrary Media File Renaming

CVE-2021-24816Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.4.2Update to 3.4.4 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-284 Improper Access Control
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Phoenix Media Rename phoenix-media-rename

  1. Affected≤ 3.4.2
  2. Patched in3.4.4

Update to 3.4.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.4.2. Version 3.4.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Phoenix Media Rename.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.4.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Phoenix Media Rename to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to apple502j.

The Phoenix Media Rename WordPress plugin before 3.4.4 does not have capability checks in its phoenix_media_rename AJAX action, which could allow users with Author roles to rename any uploaded media files, including ones they do not own.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Phoenix Media Rename

All 2
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.5Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection
≤3.13.5Update to 3.13.6
CVE-2026-116389

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  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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