Media Library Assistant <= 3.27 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited File Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-8357
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published August 18, 2025
Last Updated August 19, 2025
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion in the /wp-content/uploads directory due to insufficient file path validation and user capability checking in the _process_mla_download_file function in all versions up to, and including, 3.27. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server from the /wp-content/uploads/ directory.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug media-library-assistant (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.27
Patched Version
  • 3.28
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