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Folders <= 3.1.5 — Incorrect Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Folder Content Manipulation

CVE-2025-12971Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.1.5Update to 3.1.6 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
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-863 Incorrect Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager folders

  1. Affected≤ 3.1.5
  2. Patched in3.1.6

Update to 3.1.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.1.5. Version 3.1.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.1.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Dmitrii Ignatyev.

The Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a misconfigured capability check on the 'wcp_change_post_folder' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to move arbitrary folder contents to arbitrary folders.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager

All 7
More vulnerabilities in Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Media Replacement
≤3.1.5Update to 3.1.6
CVE-2025-12640
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload
≤3.0.3Update to 3.0.4
CVE-2024-7317
Medium4.3Directory Traversal via handle_folders_file_upload
≤3.0Update to 3.0.1
CVE-2024-2023
Medium5.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via User First Name and Last Name
≤3.0.2Update to 3.0.3
CVE-2024-3868
High8.8Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload in handle_folders_file_upload
≤2.9.2Update to 2.9.3
CVE-2023-40204

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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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