Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessRegister or obtain subscriber account
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DeliverySend crafted request to settings-save endpoint
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ExploitMissing capability & nonce check accepts request
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ExecutionPlugin upload settings overwritten
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ImpactWeakened upload controls enable further abuse
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 a working WordPress account of any authenticated level (subscriber suffices per the description), so the site must allow the attacker to register or otherwise obtain credentials - sites with open/self-registration are most exposed. The vulnerable action is the plugin's settings-save handler, which lacks both a capability check and request-authenticity (nonce/CSRF) verification. No user interaction and no non-default configuration is needed beyond having the All in One Files Upload plugin (version before 2.0.17) installed and active. The primary limiting factor is the authentication requirement (PR:L): a purely anonymous, unauthenticated attacker cannot exploit this, and the direct impact is confined to integrity of plugin settings (no data disclosure or denial of service). |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate real-world risk that does not warrant emergency prioritization. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, base 4.3) is internally consistent with the description: a network-reachable, low-complexity flaw requiring only low-privilege authentication (subscriber) and no user interaction, with impact limited to integrity (settings modification) and no confidentiality or availability loss. All threat signals point the same direction and do not conflict: SSVC reports Exploitation 'none', Automatable 'no', and Technical Impact 'partial'; no EPSS score was supplied; the CVE is not in CISA KEV; and no public exploit code was referenced. There is thus no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag slightly overstates the issue - this is a missing capability check plus missing CSRF/nonce verification (CWE-862, broken access control), not a true authentication bypass, since the attacker must already hold a valid (even if minimal) account. Realistic priority: patch during a normal maintenance window, prioritized only where untrusted user registration is enabled. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | On a WordPress site that permits open user registration, an attacker registers a subscriber-level account, then sends a crafted request to the plugin's settings-save endpoint, which performs no capability check and no nonce/CSRF verification. The attacker alters the plugin's upload configuration (e.g., allowed file types, upload paths, or size limits), potentially loosening restrictions to enable follow-on abuse. No public proof-of-concept exploit was identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026
Missing authorization in the All in One Files Upload WordPress plugin before 2.0.17 lets any authenticated user - a subscriber-level account is sufficient per the reported issue - rewrite the plugin's saved settings, because the settings-save handler performs neither a capability check nor a request-authenticity (nonce/CSRF) check. The impact is integrity-only and limited to plugin configuration; there is no data disclosure, no denial of service, and no server-side code execution, which is consistent with the assessed CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) and the CISA SSVC decision of exploitation: none, automatable: no, technical impact: partial. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, and vendor-released patch 2.0.17 is available. The practical exposure is greatest on sites that allow open or self-service registration, since the attacker must first hold a valid WordPress account.
RemediationAI
The primary fix is to update the All in One Files Upload plugin to version 2.0.17 or later, which is the vendor-released patch that adds the missing authorization and request-authenticity checks; verify the installed version under WordPress Plugins and confirm the update actually applied, since auto-update failures on locked-down hosts are common. Where an immediate upgrade is not possible, the most effective compensating control is to restrict who can hold an authenticated account: disable public/self-registration (Settings > General > Membership) and audit existing subscriber accounts for anyone who should not be there, accepting that this breaks legitimate self-service signup flows. Site operators can also add a WAF or reverse-proxy rule that blocks POST requests to wp-admin/admin-post.php (and admin-ajax.php) carrying the plugin's settings-save action from users lacking administrative roles, with the trade-off that a poorly scoped rule will break legitimate admin configuration saves and other plugins sharing those endpoints. Note that no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis and CISA SSVC rates the issue as not automatable, so this does not warrant emergency out-of-band change control; treat it as a routine patch cycle item and consult the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5c4546f4-fa6f-47a5-9d2b-9493d34dc13d/ for the vendor's confirmation of the fixed version.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is a WordPress plugin that exposes a settings-save endpoint, typically routed through wp-admin/admin-post.php or wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. The handler is registered as a privileged action but fails to enforce two standard WordPress controls: a capability check via current_user_can() (for example, requiring manage_options) and request-authenticity verification via check_admin_referer() or wp_verify_nonce(). This maps to CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), and the auxiliary absence of CSRF protection is a related but secondary weakness. Because WordPress exposes a single AJAX/admin-post entry point to all logged-in users and does not itself gate plugin-registered actions by role, any authenticated session - including the lowest default role, subscriber - can POST the plugin's settings fields, and the handler will persist them. The CVSS vector confirms the boundary conditions: PR:L indicates the attacker must be authenticated, UI:N indicates no victim interaction is needed, and the C:N/I:L/A:N scope means only configuration integrity is affected, not confidentiality or availability. EUVD records the affected range as All in One Files Upload 0 through versions below 2.0.17.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Network-reachable settings endpoint, low complexity, low-privilege subscriber account required (PR:L), no interaction; impact limited to integrity of plugin settings, no confidentiality or availability loss.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
The All in One Files Upload WordPress plugin before 2.0.17 does not have any capability check, and does not verify the authenticity of the request, when saving its settings, allowing any authenticated user, such as a subscriber, to change them.
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Attack Technique
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