Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit <= 5.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Media Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-13419
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published January 6, 2026
Last Updated January 7, 2026
Researcher Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan (NomanProdhan)
Description

The Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the '/wp-json/bfe/v1/revert' REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media attachments.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug front-editor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.0.0
Patched Version
  • 5.0.1
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