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Document Embedder <= 2.0.4 — Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary Document Library Entry Deletion

CVE-2026-1389Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.0.4Update to 2.0.5 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-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Required access
Unknown
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

  1. Affected≤ 2.0.4
  2. Patched in2.0.5

Update to 2.0.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.4. Version 2.0.5 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.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.0.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. 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 Itthidej Aramsri (Boeing777).

The Document Embedder – Embed PDFs, Word, Excel, and Other Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.4. This is due to the plugin not verifying that a user has permission to access the requested resource in the 'bplde_save_document_library', 'bplde_get_single', and 'bplde_delete_document_library' AJAX actions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to read, modify, and delete Document Library entries created by other users, including administrators, via the 'id' parameter.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 'documentSource.doc' Block Attribute
≤2.4.0Update to 2.4.1
CVE-2026-109370
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.5.0Update to 2.5.1
CVE-2026-62037
High7.5Unauthenticated Arbitrary Document Download
<2.3.1Update to 2.3.1
CVE-2026-16567
High8.6Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Document Manipulation
≤2.0.0Update to 2.0.1
CVE-2025-12384
Medium5.3Sensitive Data Exposure
<1.7.5Update to 1.7.6
CVE-2021-24775

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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