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Prevent files / folders access <= 2.6.0 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Path Traversal

CVE-2025-53561Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.6.0Update to 2.6.1 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-22 Path Traversal
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Prevent Files / Folders Access prevent-file-access

  1. Affected≤ 2.6.0
  2. Patched in2.6.1

Update to 2.6.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.6.0. Version 2.6.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

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

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.6.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Prevent Files / Folders Access to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Martino Spagnuolo.

The Prevent files / folders access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.0 via the mo_media_show_file_or_folder() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform actions on files outside of the originally intended directory.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Prevent Files / Folders Access

All 3
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤2.6.7Update to 2.6.8
CVE-2026-97267
High7.2Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Upload in mo_media_restrict_page
≤2.5.1Update to 2.5.2
CVE-2023-4238

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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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