Media File Manager Advanced <= 1.1.5 — Improper Access Control
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Affected: ≤1.1.5No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Media File Manager Advanced media-file-manager-advanced
- Affected≤ 1.1.5
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.1.5. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Media File Manager Advanced.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
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 Media File Manager Advanced to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Evex.
The Media File Manager Advanced plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Disclosure, SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting, Site Ruining, and Changing of Content in versions up to, and including, 1.1.5. This is due to missing capability checks and insufficient input validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers to perform any of the previously listed attacks.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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.