Frontend File Manager Plugin <= 23.6 — Cross-Site Request Forgery
CVE-2026-16292Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤23.6No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Frontend File Manager Plugin nmedia-user-file-uploader
- Affected≤ 23.6
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 23.6. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Frontend File Manager Plugin.
- 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
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Frontend File Manager Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara.
The Frontend File Manager Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 23.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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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|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤23.6No patch available | CVE-2026-32577 | |
| Critical9.1 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion ≤23.6No patch available | CVE-2026-12277 | |
| High8.1 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion ≤23.6No patch available | CVE-2026-8095 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤23.6No patch available | CVE-2026-8378 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated File Download ≤23.6No patch available | CVE-2026-8379 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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- Critical9.1Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion
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- High8.1Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion
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- Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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- Medium5.3Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated File Download
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| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
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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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