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Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager, CVE-2025-12640

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-12640

Published on
Jan 08, 2026
Research Description
The Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthorized Arbitrary Media Replacement in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.5. This is due to missing object-level authorization checks in the handle_folders_file_upload() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to replace arbitrary media files from the WordPress Media Library.
Affected versions
max 3.1.6.
Status
vulnerable