Shared Files – Frontend File Upload Form & Secure File Sharing < 1.7.58 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Download
CVE-2025-15433Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <1.7.58Update to 1.7.58 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-22 Path Traversal
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Shared Files – File Upload & Download Manager shared-files
- Affected< 1.7.58
- Patched in1.7.58
Update to 1.7.58 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 1.7.58. Version 1.7.58 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Shared Files – File Upload & Download Manager.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.7.58, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Shared Files – File Upload & Download Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Muhammad Rohan Khan.
The Shared Files – Frontend File Upload Form & Secure File Sharing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to 1.7.58 (exclusive). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
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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| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Server-Side Request Forgery ≤1.7.69Update to 1.7.70 | CVE-2026-78269 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Path Traversal ≤1.7.64Update to 1.7.65 | CVE-2026-49112 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via sanitize_file Function ≤1.7.48Update to 1.7.49 | CVE-2025-4392 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. 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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