Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other Files <= 2.0.0 — Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Document Manipulation
CVE-2025-12384Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.0.0Update to 2.0.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.6
- CVSS
- 8.6CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:HIntegrity- High
A:LAvailability- Low
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Document Embedder – let visitors read files without downloading document-emberdder
- Affected≤ 2.0.0
- Patched in2.0.1
Update to 2.0.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.0. Version 2.0.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Document Embedder – let visitors read files without downloading.
- 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
- Update to version 2.0.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Document Embedder – let visitors read files without downloading to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to NumeX.
The Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access/modification/loss of data in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action in the "bplde_save_document_library", "bplde_get_all", "bplde_get_single", and "bplde_delete_document_library" functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create, read, update, and delete arbitrary document_library posts.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.6
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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