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Media Library Organizer CVE-2026-94297

| EUVDEUVD-2026-89625 LOW
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
2026-09-30 contact@wpscan.com GHSA-5pq2-mhxv-3hgx
2.7
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: wpscan
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain contributor-level WordPress account
  2. Exploit
    Send plugin term-creation request for arbitrary taxonomy
  3. Execution
    Bypass missing capability check
  4. Impact
    Create publicly visible terms in any taxonomy

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated WordPress account with contributor-level role or higher on a site running Media Library Organizer versions 2.0.4 through 2.1.3 (fixed in 2.1.4); no user interaction is needed. Exploitation is limited to sites where lower-trust roles like contributor are provisioned to untrusted users, and the impact is bounded to creating publicly visible taxonomy terms - there is no confidentiality or availability effect. The practical limiter is the authentication requirement: an attacker must first hold a valid contributor+ account, so this is not remotely exploitable against an anonymous visitor.

Impact

This is a low-severity, low-real-risk finding despite the 'Authentication Bypass' tag. Every corroborating signal points the same direction: the CVSS 3.1 base score is only 2.7 with impact limited to I:L (no confidentiality, no availability), and CISA's SSVC framework rates Exploitation as 'none', Automatable as 'no', and Technical Impact as 'partial' - i.e. not a prioritization candidate. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC in the provided data, so there is no evidence of exploitation interest. One conflict must be flagged: the provided CVSS vector uses PR:H, but the description states the flaw is exploitable by 'contributor-level access and above', which in the WordPress role model corresponds to a low-privilege authenticated user (PR:L), not a high-privilege one. If PR:L is correct the base score rises to ~4.3, still Low. The vector is also self-consistent with a broken-access-control issue rather than a true authentication bypass, so the 'Authentication Bypass' tag overstates the class (this is CWE-862 missing authorization / broken access control). Net: real but minor authorization gap, not a patching priority beyond routine plugin updates.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who already holds (or has been granted) a contributor-level WordPress account on a site running Media Library Organizer < 2.1.4 sends the plugin's term-creation request targeting a taxonomy they should not be able to manage. Because the plugin never checks the target taxonomy's management capability, the attacker creates arbitrary, publicly visible terms in any registered taxonomy. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and impact is limited to unauthorized content/term creation (integrity), not code execution or data theft.

Monitor Track and reassess. Why: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026

Missing authorization checks in the Media Library Organizer WordPress plugin versions 2.0.4 through 2.1.3 allow authenticated users holding a contributor-level account (or higher) to create publicly visible terms in any taxonomy registered on the site, including ones they have no management rights over. The flaw is a CWE-862 missing capability check that is exercised over the network without user interaction, but it requires a valid low-privileged WordPress account and produces only a limited integrity impact - no confidentiality or availability loss - so despite the 'Authentication Bypass' tag this is a low-severity finding (assessed CVSS 2.7) with no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no listing in CISA KEV; CISA SSVC rates exploitation as none and not automatable. Vendor-released patch: 2.1.4.

RemediationAI

Upgrade the Media Library Organizer plugin to version 2.1.4 or later, which is the vendor-released fix for this missing capability check; verify the change on staging before production rollout because taxonomy-driven templates and term IDs can shift after the patch. If an immediate upgrade is not feasible, the most effective compensating control is to withdraw the contributor role (and any custom role with term-management-reachable permissions) from users who are not trusted - this fully removes the prerequisite account, at the cost of disrupting legitimate contributor publishing workflows. As a secondary measure, restrict plugin management to administrators only, audit existing taxonomy terms for unexpected or attacker-inserted entries and remove them, and monitor term creation events for non-editor accounts. Note that generic per-taxonomy permission hardening must be done in the plugin or a companion capability-management plugin rather than via core WordPress settings, and that disabling Media Library Organizer entirely stops the affected code path but also removes its media-organizing functionality. Patch availability is confirmed: Vendor-released patch: 2.1.4, per the vendor advisory referenced at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c9cecfb4-d554-4d64-8d87-9678363d8b8d/.

Affected VersionsENISA

Media Library Organizer 2.0.4 <2.1.4

Affected Packages

euvd media_library_organizer fix: 2.1.4

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerable component is the WordPress plugin Media Library Organizer, which registers and manipulates taxonomies through the WordPress taxonomy API (register_taxonomy, wp_insert_term/wp_update_term, and the corresponding admin-ajax and REST entry points). WordPress taxonomies carry a per-taxonomy capability object (cap->manage_terms, cap->edit_terms, cap->assign_terms), and the correct pattern is to call current_user_can() against that specific capability before performing term operations. CVE-2026-94297 is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization): the plugin's term-creation path does not verify that the requesting user holds the target taxonomy's management capability, so the check is implicitly satisfied by any user whose role can reach the code path - here contributors and above, which is why our independent assessment uses PR:L in the CVSS vector rather than the PR:H shown in the base score supplied with the record. The result is a horizontal privilege gap: a contributor can insert terms into taxonomies registered by Media Library Organizer or by other plugins/themes on the same site, and those terms are publicly visible because taxonomy terms are rendered on the front end. The impact is bounded to integrity (I:L) with no read or write of other users' data and no denial-of-service effect; SSVC reflects this with Technical Impact: partial and Automatable: no.

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Severity by source

Vendor (wpscan) PRIMARY 2.7 LOW
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Description states contributor-level access suffices, so PR:L not PR:H; impact is unauthorized term creation only, so I:L with C:N/A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).

CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Patch available
Sep 30, 2026 - 07:01 EUVD
CVE Published
Sep 30, 2026 - 06:17 cve.org
LOW 2.7
CVE Published
Sep 30, 2026 - 06:17 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

The Media Library Organizer WordPress plugin before 2.1.4 does not verify that the requesting user holds the target taxonomy's management capability before creating a new term, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to create publicly visible terms in any taxonomy registered on the site.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 94% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche WordPress media-library management plugin, modest install base
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity LOW
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Defer
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Low
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

14
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +14
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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