Folders – Unlimited Folders to Organize Media Library Folder, Pages, Posts, File Manager <= 3.1.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Media Replacement

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12640
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 7, 2026
Last Updated January 8, 2026
Researcher Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan)
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug folders (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.5
Patched Version
  • 3.1.6
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