FKIE_CVE-2025-0818

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-13 04:16 - Updated: 2025-08-13 17:33
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Summary
Several WordPress plugins using elFinder versions 2.1.64 and prior are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in various versions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a site owner to explicitly make an instance of the file manager available to users.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder
security@wordfence.comhttps://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder/blob/master/php/elFinder.class.php#L5367
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/file-manager-advanced/trunk/application/library/php/elFinder.class.php#L5411
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/filester/trunk/includes/File_manager/lib/php/elFinder.class.php#L5378
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-file-manager/trunk/lib/php/elFinder.class.php
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3319016/filester
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3335715/file-manager-advanced/trunk/application/library/php/elFinder.class.php
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2a166de-3bdf-4883-91ba-655f2757c53b?source=cve
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