Vulnerabilities and security researches forenable-media-replace enable-media-replace

Jun 06, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-0255
Home page URL: Security reports for Enable Media Replace
Application: Enable Media Replace
Date: Feb 13, 2023
Research Description: The Enable Media Replace WordPress plugin before 4.0.2 does not prevent authors from uploading arbitrary files to the site, which may allow them to upload PHP shells on affected sites.
Affected versions: max 4.0.2.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-6737
Home page URL: Security reports for Enable Media Replace
Application: Enable Media Replace
Date: Jan 11, 2024
Research Description: The Enable Media Replace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the SHORTPIXEL_DEBUG parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Exploiting this vulnerability requires the attacker to know the ID of an attachment uploaded by the user they are attacking.
Affected versions: max 4.1.5.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: 998cd782c633045e5da1cdac6b7b7cd2ce8eb0d2
Home page URL: Security reports for Enable Media Replace
Application: Enable Media Replace
Date: Feb 09, 2011
Research Description: Enable Media Replace [enable-media-replace] < 2.4 (closed) WordPress Enable Media Replace Plugin - Multiple Vulnerabilities In general, impact of this plugin is information retrieval and manipulation, arbitrary code execution. More details: there exist multiple vulnerabilities in Enable Media Replace plugin for WordPress: 1. Users can perform SQL injection attacks against the plugin. 2. Users can upload arbitrary files (for the example, PHP files) to retrieve or change important information in the SQL database.
Affected versions: max 2.4.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-2554
Home page URL: Security reports for Enable Media Replace
Application: Enable Media Replace
Date: Oct 11, 2022
Research Description: The Enable Media Replace WordPress plugin before 4.0.0 does not ensure that renamed files are moved to the Upload folder, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to move them outside to the web root directory via a path traversal attack for example
Affected versions: max 2.4.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-4643
Home page URL: Security reports for Enable Media Replace
Application: Enable Media Replace
Date: Oct 17, 2023
Research Description: The Enable Media Replace WordPress plugin before 4.1.3 unserializes user input via the Remove Background feature, which could allow Author+ users to perform PHP Object Injection when a suitable gadget is present on the blog
Affected versions: max 4.1.3.
Status: vulnerable

Apr 02, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-31081
Home page URL: Security reports for Enable Media Replace
Application: Enable Media Replace
Date: Apr 02, 2025
Research Description: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in ShortPixel Enable Media Replace allows Reflected XSS. This issue affects Enable Media Replace: from n/a through 4.1.5.
Affected versions: max 4.1.6.
Status: vulnerable

Dec 10, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-9496
Home page URL: Security reports for Enable Media Replace
Application: Enable Media Replace
Date: Oct 11, 2025
Research Description: The Enable Media Replace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's file_modified shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 4.1.7.
Status: vulnerable